Snow Valley Ski Resort has been contracting snow removal from its parking lots at a cost of \($400/day.\) A snow removal machine can be purchased for \($25,000.\) The machine is estimated to have a useful life of 6 years with a zero salvage value at that time. Annual costs for operating and maintaining the equipment are estimated to be \($5,000.

Determine the break-even value for the number of days per year that snow removal is required in order to justify purchasing the snow-removal machine. MARR is 12 percent/year.