S7.25 AZan Azlett and Angela Zesiger have joined forces to start A&Z Lettuce Products, a processor of packagedshredded lettuce for institutional use. Zan has years of food processing experience, and Angela hasextensive commercial food preparation experience. The process will consist of opening crates of lettuceand then sorting, washing, slicing, preserving, and finally packaging the prepared lettuce. Together, withhelp from vendors, they think they can adequately estimate demand, fixed costs, revenues, and variablecost per 5-pound bag of lettuce. They think a largely manual process will have monthly fixed costs of$37,500 and variable costs of $1.75 per bag. A more mechanized process will have fixed costs of $75,000per month with variable costs of $1.25 per 5-pound bag. They expect to sell the shredded lettuce for$2.50 per 5-pound bag.a) What is the break-even quantity for the manual process?b) What is the revenue at the break-even quantity for the manual process?c) What is the break-even quantity for the mechanized process?

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