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McHardee Press publishes the Fast Food Menu Book and wishes to determine how many copies to print. There is a fixed cost of $5,000 to produce the book and the incremental profit per copy is $0.40. Any unsold copies of the book can be sold at salvage at a $.60 loss. Sales for this edition are estimated to be
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