Prices are increasing. Instead of increasing the price of the current product named "Product Awesome", the plan is to put the same product in a new box and call it "Super Awesome". The new container will be introduced by a television program. Current sales are 1,000,000 boxes a year at $1 per box. Fixed costs are $300,000 and variable costs are $0.60 per unit. It's anticipated that neither the sales volume nor variable costs will increase, however the television program will double fixed costs.
1) If the new price is $1.29 per box, what is the next break-even point?
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2) How many boxes above present sales would have to be sold under the "old product plus pesuasion" plan to double the present profit?
(Please show step by step computation)