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Handsome Accessories operates a kiosk at the local mall, selling cell phone covers for $$28$ each. Handsome Accessories currently pays $$620$ a month to rent the space and pays

two full$-$time employees to each work $200$ hours a month at $$10$ per hour. The store shares a manager with a neighboring kiosk and pays $50\%$ of the manager's annual salary of

$$36,000$ and benefits of $$3,600.$ The wholesale cost of the cell phone covers to the company is $$9.$

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Requirement $1.$ How many cell phone covers does Handsome Accessories need to sell each month to break even?

Select the formula labels, enter the amounts and calculate the breakeven number of cell phone covers per month.

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How many cell phone covers does Handsome Accessories need to sell each

month to break even?

If Handsome Accessories wants to earn an operating income of $$8,018$

per month, how many cell phone covers does the store need to sell?

If the store's hourly employees agreed to a $25\%$ sales$-$commission$-$only

pay structure, instead of their hourly pay, how many cell phone covers would

Handsome Accessories need to sell to earn an operating income of $$8,018?$

Assume Handsome Accessories pays its employees hourly under the original

pay structure, but is able to pay the mall $7\%$ of its monthly revenue instead of

monthly rent. At what sales levels would Handsome Accessories prefer to pay

a fixed amount of monthly rent, and at what sales levels would it prefer to pay

$7\%$ of its monthly revenue as rent?

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