Footwear, Inc. manufactures a complete line of men’s and women’s formal shoes for independent merchants. The average selling price of its finished product is \($85\) per pair. The variable cost for this same pair of shoes is \($58.\) Footwear Inc. incurs fixed costs of \($170,000\) per year.

a. What is the break-even point in pairs of shoes sold for the company?

b. What is the dollar sales volume the firm must achieve to reach the break-even point?

c. What would be the firm’s profit or loss (that is, net operating income) at the following units of production sold: 7,000 pairs of shoes? 9,000 pairs of shoes? 15,000 pairs of shoes?