Joyce Murphy runs a courier service in downtown Seattle. She charges clients $$0\mathrm{.}59$ per mile driven. Joyce has determined that if she

drives $3,100$ miles in a month, her total operating cost is $$979.$ If she drives $4,000$ miles in a month, her total operating cost is $$1,150.$

Joyce has used the high$-$low method to determine that her monthly cost equation is total monthly cost $=$$$390+$$$0\mathrm{.}19$ per mile driven.

Required:

Determine how many miles Joyce needs to drive to break even.

Calculate Joyce's degree of operating leverage if she drives $4,200$ miles.

Suppose Joyce took a week off and her sales for the month decreased by $25$ percent. Using the degree of operating leverage,

calculate the effect this will have on her profit for that month.

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Determine how many miles Joyce needs to drive to break even.

Note: Round your intermediate calculations to $2$ decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.