Cruiseline offers nightly dinner cruises departing from several cities on the eastern coast of the United States including Charleston, Baltimore, and Alexandria. Dinner cruise tickets sell for $ 50 per passenger. FunTime Cruiseline's variable cost of providing the dinner is $ 30 per passenger, and the fixed cost of operating the vessels (depreciation, salaries, docking fees, and other expenses) is $ 210 comma 000 per month. The company's relevant range extends to 20 comma 000 monthly passengers. Compute the number of dinner cruise tickets FunTime Cruiseline must sell to breakeven and the sales dollars needed to breakeven.

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