Wet Weekend Swim Park sells individual and family tickets, which include a meal, three beverages, and unlimited

Question:

Wet Weekend Swim Park sells individual and family tickets, which include a meal, three beverages, and unlimited use of the swimming pools. Wet Weekend has the following ticket prices and variable costs for 2012:

Wet Weekend expects to sell two individual tickets for every four family tickets. Wet Weekend€™s total fixed costs are $75,000.
Requirements
1. Compute the weighted-average contribution margin per ticket.
2. Calculate the total number of tickets Wet Weekend must sell to break even.
3. Calculate the number of individual tickets and the number of family tickets the company must sell to breakeven.

Contribution Margin
Contribution margin is an important element of cost volume profit analysis that managers carry out to assess the maximum number of units that are required to be at the breakeven point. Contribution margin is the profit before fixed cost and taxes...