A manufacturing company has the following fixed monthly costs and unit variable costs:
Rent = $2,200
Utilities = $375
Variable costs for materials and assembly = $13.25/unit
Monthly labor = $750
Given is the product is sold at $24.99 per unit
Let the number of units sold be x
Adding total cost =
Equation becomes:
x= 283.21
So, rounding it to nearest whole number we get, 283 units.
How about this (see attached image):
Use the four cuts as shown in the image (red lines).
Then assemble 5 equal squares by the numbers: 1 center square and the rest are pieced together using two pieces as shown. All five together add up to the same area as original square because we use all pieces.
The way one gets a hint toward a solution is to see how an area of a square of length 1 can be split into 5 equal square areas:
which indicates we need to find a a triangle with sides 2 and 1 to get the hypotenuse of the right length. That gave rise to the cut pattern (if you look carefully, there are triangles with those side lengths).
