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A publisher for a promising new novel figures fixed costs $($overhead$,$ advances, promotion, copy editing, typesetting, and so on$)$ at $$50,000,$ and variable costs $($printing$,$ paper, binding, shipping$)$ at $$1\mathrm{.}70$ for each book produced. With this pricing, $3760$ books need to be produced and sold at $$15\mathrm{.}00$ each for the publisher to break even. However, rising prices for paper require an increase in variable costs to $$2\mathrm{.}20$ for each book produced.

Use this inform$$cion to complete parts a$.$ through c$.$

a$.$ What strategies might the company use to deal with this increase in costs? Choose all that are reasonable.

A$.$ Decrease the fixed costs.

B$.$ Find different suppliers to try and lower the variable costs.

C$.$ Increase the font size of the print in the book.

D$.$ Increase the selling price of the book.

b$.$ If the company continues to sell books at $$15,$ how many books must they now sell to make a profit?

The publisher must produce and sell at least books to make a profit.

$($Round up to the nearest whole book.$)$

c$.$ If the company wants to start making a profit at the same production level as before the cost increase from $$1\mathrm{.}70$ to $$2\mathrm{.}20,$ how much should the publisher sell the book for now?