example question 12a. please show solution. thank you Zan Azlett and Angela Zesiger have joined forces to start A&Z Lettuce Products, a processor of packagedshredded lettuce for institutional use. Zan has years of food processing experience, and Angela has extensivecommercial food preparation experience. The process will consist of opening crates of lettuce and then sorting,washing, slicing, preserving, and finally packaging the prepared lettuce. Together, with help from vendors, theythink they can adequately estimate demand, fixed costs, revenues, and variable cost per bag of lettuce. Theythink a largely manual process will have monthly fixed costs of $37,500 and variable costs of $1.60 per bag. Amore mechanized process will have fixed costs of $72,000 per month with variable costs of $1.50 per bag.They expect to sell the shredded lettuce for $2.50 per bag.a) The break-even quantity in units for the manual process =whole number).bags (round your response to the nearest

For the manual process Fixed cost(F) = 37,500 Variable cost(V) = 1.60 Price(P) = 2.50 Contribution…

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