Table 13-2
Adrienne's Premium Boxing Service subcontracts with a chocolate manufacturer to box premium chocolates for their mail order catalogue business.Adrienne rents a small room for $150 a week in the downtown business district that serves as her factory.She can hire workers for $275 a week.Costs are in dollars per week.
-Refer to Table 13-2.One week, Adrienne exactly breaks even.If her revenue for the week is $1525, how many boxes of chocolate did she produce?
A)five
B)60
C)950
D)1375

Question

Table 13-2
Adrienne's Premium Boxing Service subcontracts with a chocolate manufacturer to box premium chocolates for their mail order catalogue business.Adrienne rents a small room for $150 a week in the downtown business district that serves as her factory.She can hire workers for $275 a week.Costs are in dollars per week. 
-Refer to Table 13-2.One week, Adrienne exactly breaks even.If her revenue for the week is $1525, how many boxes of chocolate did she produce?
A)five 
B)60 
C)950 
D)1375

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Adrienne's costs per week are:
- Rent: $150
- Workers: $275 x number of workers hired

Let's call the number of boxes produced "x". Each worker can produce 50 boxes per week, so the number of workers she hires is equal to x/50 (rounded up to the nearest whole number).

So her costs for the week are:
- Rent: $150
- Workers: $275 x (x/50)

Her total costs are equal to her revenue in the breakeven scenario, so:

150 + 275(x/50) = 1525

Solving for x:
275x/50 = 1375
x = 250*5.5
x = 1375

Therefore, Adrienne produced 1375 boxes of chocolates, which is answer choice D.

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