Minnesota Financial is a subsidiary of Mayberry Enterprises. Processing loan applications is the main task of the corporation. They charge a $500 fee for every loan application processed. Next year's fixed costs have been projected as follows: sales and advertising $40,000; building rental, $18,000; Depreciation of computers and office equipment $27,000; and other fixed costs, $5,000. The projected variable costs include: loan officer's wages, $27 per hour (a loan application takes 5 hours to process); supplies $16.40 per application; and other variable costs, $8.60 per application. (Round all answers to the closest full number)

Questions:

1. Determine the number of loan applications the company must process to (a) break even and (b) earn a profit of $50,000 (round to the closest full number).

2. Determine the number of loan applications the company must process to earn a target profit of $50,000 if fixed costs increase by $10,000.

3. Assuming the original fixed cost information and assuming that 500 loan applications are processed, compute the loan application fee the company must charge if the target profit is $75,000.

4. If 750 loan applications is the maximum number her staff can handle. How much more (less) can be spent on promotional costs if the highest fee tolerable to the customer is $600, if variable costs cannot be reduced, and if the target net income for such an application load is $100,000?

PLEASE ELABORATE ON NUMBER FOUR ONLY. Give a clear explanation