A publisher for a promising new novel figures fixed costs(overhead, advances,promotion, copyediting, typesetting, and soon) at $54,000, and variable costs(printing, paper,binding, shipping) at $1.50 for each book produced. If the book is sold to distributors for $15 each, how many must be produced and sold for the publisher to breakeven?

The publisher must produce and sell ____books to break even.

(Round to the nearest integer asneeded.)