The lakewood baseball team is selling t shirts for a fundraiser. The shirts cost $100 for printing design and setup, plus $10 per shirt. The team is going to sell the shirts for $15 each. How many shirts do they need to sell to break even?
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The cost to break even can be calculated by dividing the total cost (design/setup cost + cost per shirt) by the selling price per shirt:
Break even point = ($100 + $10x) / $15
Where x is the number of shirts sold.
Set the break even point equal to zero and solve for x:
($100 + $10x) / $15 = 0
$100 + $10x = $15x
$100 = $5x
x = 20
Therefore, the baseball team needs to sell 20 shirts to break even.