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Swifty and Associates produces two products named Loser and Big Winner. Last month 1,000 units of Loser and 4,000 units of Big Winner were produced and sold. Average prices and costs for the two products for last month follow:

					Big
		Loser			Winner
Selling price		$	91		$	214
Direct materials			36			87
Direct labour			5			25
Variable overhead			6			14
Product line fixed costs			10			40
Corporate fixed costs			22			22
Average margin per unit		$	12		$	26

The production lines for both products are highly automated, so large changes in production cause very little change in total direct labour costs. Workers who are classified as direct labour monitor the production line and are permanent employees who regularly work 40 hours per week.

All costs other than corporate fixed costs listed under each product line could be avoided if the product line were dropped. Corporate fixed costs totalled $110,000, and the total sales amounted to 5,000 units, producing the average cost per unit of $22. About $7,050 of the corporate fixed costs could be avoided if Loser were dropped, and about $16,460 of the corporate fixed costs could be avoided if Big Winner were dropped. The remaining $86,490 could be avoided only by going out of business entirely.

What is the overall corporate breakeven in total sales revenue, assuming that the sales mix is the same as last months? (Round intermediate calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.24647 and final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,278.)

Breakeven revenue:

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What is the breakeven sales volume (in units produced and sold) for Loser? (In other words, what is the sales volume at which Swifty should be financially indifferent between dropping and retaining Loser?)

Breakeven sales volume:

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