Hey guys, is there anyone who could help me please. I'm so confused ;) It's simple stuff

It costs $1 for a plain pretzel (expense is .60, profit is .40), but customers want more salt which will cost an extra $.25 to make per pretzel. In the past, 100 pretzels were sold- calculate how many additional pretzels need to be sold to cover the costs of adding the extra expense of the salt.

266.66 more pretzels is the answer i think 100 pretzels gives a profit of 40$ Therefore the formula is x= the number of pretzels sold x-(x)expense = profit 100-100(.60)= 40

x=266.7 pretzels

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Hey guys, is there anyone who could help me please. I'm so confused ;) It's simple stuff

It costs $1 for a plain pretzel (expense is .60, profit is .40), but customers want more salt which will cost an extra $.25 to make per pretzel. In the past, 100 pretzels were sold- calculate how many additional pretzels need to be sold to cover the costs of adding the extra expense of the salt.

266.66 more pretzels is the answer i think 100 pretzels gives a profit of 40$ Therefore the formula is x= the number of pretzels sold x-(x)expense = profit 100-100(.60)= 40

x=266.7 pretzels

anonymous · Answer

The question is asking for "how many additional pretzels need to be sold to cover the costs of adding the extra expense of the salt"   is that mean that I have to 266.7-100? so 166.7 are the extra pretzels that need to be sold to gain the $40 profit?

anonymous · Answer

@Eve128 I agree with your answer, 166.7 is correct. However you can't sell 0.7 of a pretzel, so you should probably round it up to 167. Good work :)

anonymous · Answer

I can see your point, of course it make sense. Thank you for your help Traxter :)