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Setting Up Cost and Revenue Models for a Weight Training Bench

At Apex Fitness, a product development team is launching a new line of low-cost weight training benches. As a junior production manager, you need to establish the algebraic models to monitor the project's financial viability. The team has calculated the following monthly figures:

  • Fixed monthly overhead costs (such as facility rent, equipment leasing, and administrative salaries) are 25,500 dollars.
  • The variable cost to manufacture each individual bench (raw materials and assembly labor) is 15 dollars.
  • Each weight training bench is sold to wholesale distributors for a price of 32 dollars.

For a monthly production and sales volume of xx benches, answer the following:

  1. Recall and state the total cost function C(x)C(x).
  2. Recall and state the total revenue function R(x)R(x).
  3. Write down the algebraic equation created by setting total cost equal to total revenue to find the break-even point (you do not need to solve the equation).

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