$($Leverage and$$ EPS$)$You have developed the following pro forma income statement for your$$ corporation:$$LOADING$....$ It represents the most recent$$ year's operations, which ended yesterday. Your supervisor in the$$ controller's office has just handed you a memorandum asking for written responses to the following$$ questions:

Sales

$

$45,750,000$

Variable costs

$(22,800,000)$

Revenue before fixed costs

$

$22,950,000$

Fixed costs

$(9,200,000)$

EBIT

$

$13,750,000$

Interest expense

$(1,350,000)$

Earnings before taxes

$

$12,400,000$

Taxes $(50\%)$

$(6,200,000)$

Net income

$

$6,200,000$

$$If sales should increase by $25\%,$ the percentage change in earnings before

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