Chi Omega Sorority is planning its annual Riverboat Extravaganza. The Extravaganza

Exercise 5-13 Break-Even Analysis and CVP Graphing [LO2, LO4, LO6]

Chi Omega Sorority is planning its annual Riverboat Extravaganza. The Extravaganza committee has assembled the following expected costs for the event:

Dinner (per person)	$7
Favors and program (per person)	$3
Band	$1,500
Tickets and advertising	$700
Riverboat rental	$4,800
Floorshow and strolling entertainers	$1,000

The committee members would like to charge $30 per person for the evening’s activities.

Required:
1.	Compute the break-even point for the Extravaganza (in terms of the number of persons that must attend).

Break-even point

400  persons

2.	Assume that only 250 persons attended the Extravaganza last year. If the same number attend this year, what price per ticket must be charged to break even? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Ticket price per person to break even

$ 42