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1. Paget Integrated Solutions (40 pts)

Constance Paget is the owner of Paget Integrated Solutions, a Web technology consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington. Paget is planning a seminar on Web applications with a popular guest speaker to take place in Houston, Texas, next spring. She wants your help in generating a budget for the seminar that will incorporate the fixed, variable, and mixed costs to determine under what conditions the seminar will be profitable for her company.

1. Use formulas to find total revenue, total fixed cost, variable cost, mixed costs and balance. (Hint: Vlookup function is required to find the mixed costs)
2. Use goal seek to determine what number of attendees will result in a balance of $0.
3. Constance know that the registration fee for the seminar increases, the number of attendees willing to pay decreases. Change the number of attendees from a constant value to the following formula:
4. Use Solver to determine the registration fee that will maximize the balance value with the constraint that the registration fee should be an integer.

   			100	$750
   Variable Costs			150	$900
   Training Material Cost (per person)	$35		200	$1,000
   Goodie Bag Cost (per person)	$15
   Total Variable Costs			Meal Catering
   			Persons	Charge (per person)
   Fixed Costs			0	$25
   Internet Hotspot	$50		50	$20
   Speaker Fee	$900		100	$17
   Speaker Travel	$500
   Speaker Lodging	$140		Support Staff
   Miscellaneous	$350		Persons	Charge
   Total Fixed Costs			0	$60
   			50	$80
   Mixed Costs			100	$100
   Room Rental			200	$120
   Meal Catering
   Support Staff
   Total Mixed Costs
   Balance

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