Bill Snyder is a manufacturer of automated robots for automobileassembly. He purchases a router shaft from Pennington at $4.20 perunit with a minimum order of 3,800 units. Bill is considering tomanufacture the shaft in his own facility. He estimates thatproducing it himself will cost $15,000 to set up the process andthen $1.82 per unit for labor and materials.
a.) The number of units at which either choice has the same costis ? (round your response to the nearest whole number).
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