Zania Azlett and Angela Zesiger have joined forces to start A&Z Lettuce Products, a processor of packaged

shredded lettuce for institutional use. Zania has years of food processing experience, and Angela has

extensive commercial food preparation experience. The process will consist of opening crates of lettuce and

then sorting, washing, slicing, preserving, and finally packaging the prepared lettuce. Together, with help

from vendors, they think they can adequately estimate demand, fixed costs, revenues, and variable cost per

bag of lettuce. They think a largely manual process will have monthly fixed costs of $$37,500$ and variable costs

of $$1\mathrm{.}75$ per bag. A more mechanized process will have fixed costs of $$72,000$ per month with variable costs of

$$1\mathrm{.}25$ per bag. They expect to sell the shredded lettuce for $$2\mathrm{.}50$ per bag.

a$)$ The break$-$even quantity in units for the manual process $=$ bags $($round your response to the nearest

whole number$).$

b$)$ The revenue for the manual process at the break$-$even quantity $=$$$,($round your response to the nearest

whole number$).$

c$)$ The break$-$even quantity in units for the mechanized process $=$ bags $($round your response to the nearest

whole number$).$

d$)$ The revenue for the mechanized process at the break$-$even quantity $=$$$,($round your response to the

nearest whole number$).$

e$)$ For monthly sales of $65,000$ bags, for the option with manual processing, A&Z Lettuce Products will have a

profit of $$,($round your response to the nearest whole number and include a minus sign if the profit

is negative$).$

f$)$ For monthly sales of $65,000$ bags, for the option with mechanized processing, A&Z Lettuce Products will

have a profit of $$,($round your response to the nearest whole number and include a minus sign if the profit

is negative$).$

g$)$ The quantity at which Zania and Angela are going to be indifferent between the manual and mechanized

process $=$ bags $($round your response to the nearest whole number$).$

h$)$ If the demand exceeds the point of indifference, then Zania and Angela should prefer the option with

processing.

If the demand stays below the point of indifference, then Zania and Angela should prefer the option with

processing.