Answer to Question #21556 in Economics of Enterprise for Jobi

Question

A tourist coach company offers a daily (week days) tour from Bryon Bay to Lismore and return. People taking the tour are supplied lunch
The company puts a weekly advertisement in the local paper costing $120.
Each passenger is charged $45 (including lunch) for the return journey.
The fuel cost and other running costs total $45 per trip.
The driver’s wage is $120 per trip.
Lunch cost is $14 per person
The company would like to make a profit on a weekly basis even though some individual trips might operate at a loss.

(a) From the information given, plot the graphs of revenue and cost and find the number of passengers required per week to break even.
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(b) Ideally the company would like to make $1000 profit per week, calculate the number of passengers required to make this happen.