The Congress Company has identified two methods for producing playing cards. One method involves using a machine E having a fixed cost of $10,000 and variable costs of $1.00 per deck of cards. The other method would use a less expensive machine S (with a fixed cost = $4,000), but it would require greater variable costs ($1.75 per deck of cards). If the selling price per deck of cards will be the same under each method, at what level of output will these two alternative machines produce the same net operating income (EBIT)?

• A. 14,000 decks
• B. 8,000 decks
• C. 32,000 decks
• D. 18,667 decks
• E. 10,000 decks