Kent Co. manufactures a product that sells for $56.00 and has variable costs of $30.00 per unit. Fixed costs are $286,000. Kent can buy a new production machine that will increase fixed costs by $22,700 per year, but will decrease variable costs by $5.50 per unit. Compute the revised break-even point in units if the new machine is purchased.

True or false entrepreneurs try to meet the needs of the marketplace by supplying a service or product

Consider two similar industries, portal crane manufacturing (pcm) and forklift manufacturing (flm). the pcm industry has exactly three incumbents with annual sales of $800 million, $200 million and $100 million, respectively. the flm industry has also exactly three incumbents, with annual sales of $500 million, $450 million and $400 million, respectively. which industry is more likely to experience a higher level of rivalry?

Which of the following statements regarding the southern economy at the end of the nineteenth century is accurate? the south was producing as much cotton as it had before the civil war.