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Calculate Incremental Customers for Marketing Spend Justification

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Evaluates incremental customer calculations for partnership marketing spend justification. Strong answers derive break-even customers for fixed spend and required volume for variable-cost campaigns against a profit target.

Scenario

Estimating incremental customers needed to justify partnership marketing spend.

Question

a) If an annual campaign with the ride-sharing partner costs $25 million, how many incremental cardholders are required to at least break even? b) Assuming instead a variable cost of $40 per new customer per year and a one-time marketing spend of $11.8 million, how many new customers are needed to achieve the annual profit calculated in Question 2?

Hints

Use per-customer annual profit figure from Question 2; include new variable cost where applicable.