A company currently operates its flour mill 6 days per week (Monday through Saturday).
Flour sells for $24.27 per hundredweight (cwt) and the company purchases wheat at a price of $5.51 per bushel. 2.91 bushels of wheat are required per cwt of flour.
Fixed costs are currently $7,169 per day of operation. The labor cost of mill operations is $0.77 per cwt.
If the company decides to operate on Sunday, the labor cost of Sunday operations increases to $1.46 per cwt. If the mill were to operate on Sunday, the fixed cost on Sunday would increase by $820.
If the company decides to operate 7 days a week, what is the weekly break-even volume in terms of cwt? Assume the same amount of flour is produced in each day of the week.
HINT: You need to calculate the average daily variable cost for labor for a 7-day operation