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Mike and Kim invest $18,000 in equipment to print yearbooks for schools. Each yearbook costs $5 to print and sells for $30. How many yearbooks must they sell before their business breaks even?
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Mike and Kim invest $18,000 in equipment to print yearbooks for schools. Each yearbook costs $5 to print and sells for $30. How many yearbooks must they sell before their business breaks even?

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721 Year books need to be sold for the business to break even.
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This is a simple equation since they get 30$ and it costs 5$ that means they make 25$ each yearbook. Then you divide 18,000 by 25 and get 720

They have to sell 720 yearbooks :) hope this helped
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