Dear all, I believe this is a very simple math question to all of you, but I still don't know if I did it correctly. Can you help to take a quick look?
A burger company is planning to do a promotion. They will add free fries to each burger order. They want to know how many extra burgers they need to sell to make this promotion profitable. they currently sell 10,000 burgers each day. burgers are $5 each, and costs are $ 2 each. Fries are $2 each, costs are $0.5 each. 40% burger orders include fries.
This is how I did.
1. Find out current profit - 10,000*3 + 4000*1.5= 36,000
2. To make the promotion profitable, which means the profit should be higher than 36,000. Suppose we need to sell additional x burgers. (10,000+x)*5 - (10,000+x)*2.5= 36,000 x=4400
so, they should sell 4400 more burgers.
Is this correct? I know the formula for break even unit is: breakeven units= fixed cost/contribution margin. In this case, what's the fixed cost? Thanks!