The General Store at State University is an auxiliary bookstore that sells academic supplies, sweatshirts, magazines, packaged food items, canned soft drinks and fruit drinks. The manager is considering selling pizza at the store. She could buy premade frozen pizzas and heat them in an oven. The cost of Renting the oven and the freezer would be $1,248 per month. The frozen pizzas cost $3.75 to buy from a distributor and to prepare (including labor and a box). To be competitive with the local delivery services, the manager believes she should sell the pizzas for $8.95 apiece. The manager needs to write up a proposal for the universitys director of auxiliary services.

1. Determine how many pizzas would have to be sold to break even

2. If the General Store sells 20 pizzas per day, how many days would it take to break even?

3. The manager of the store anticipates that once the local pizza delivery services start losing business they will react by cutting prices. If after a month (30 days) the manager has to lower the price of a pizza to $7.95 to keep demand at 20 pizzas per day, as she expects, what will the new break-even point be and how long will it take the store to break even?