Lofty Airlines Has a Flight for Which the Regular Ticket

question 135

Multiple Choice

Lofty Airlines has a flight for which the regular ticket price is $200 and the variable costs per passenger are $50. Fixed costs assigned to each flight are $12,000. Each flight has a capacity of 125 seats, with an average of 95 seats sold at the regular price. To attract customers to the last 30 unsold seats, Lofty discounts the tickets by 50% for standby passengers. The break-even number of regular-priced seats per flight is

• A)50
• B)80
• C)95
• D)120

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