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Sprint Nextel is one of the largest digital wireless service providers in the United States

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Sprint Nextel is one of the largest digital wireless service providers in the United States. In a recent year, it had approximately 36.7 million direct subscribers (accounts) that generated revenue of $35,635 million. Costs and expenses for the year were as follows (in millions):

Assume that 80% of the cost of revenue and 30% of the selling, general, and administrative expenses are variable to the number of direct subscribers (accounts).

a. What is Sprint Nextel's break-even number of accounts, using the data and assumptions above? Round units (accounts) to one decimal place.