Crane company produces flash drives for computers, which it sells for $20 each. the variable cost to make each flash drive is $13. during april, 350 drives were sold. fixed costs for april were $1400. how much is the monthly break-even level of sales in dollars for crane?

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.