A little help?
Angelica's service club is selling flowers for a fundraiser. Each flower costs them $0.50 to purchase. They set the sale price of each flower at the purchase price plus 40%. Write and solve an equation to determine how many flowers they will need to sell to make a profit of $500. Use complete sentences to explain what each number and variable in your equation represents. Write your solution in the context of the original problem.

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A little help?
Angelica's service club is selling flowers for a fundraiser. Each flower costs them $0.50 to purchase. They set the sale price of each flower at the purchase price plus 40%. Write and solve an equation to determine how many flowers they will need to sell to make a profit of $500. Use complete sentences to explain what each number and variable in your equation represents. Write your solution in the context of the original problem.

anonymous · Answer

$0.50 to purchase plus 40% as a sale price.
0.5*1.4=.7 (Giving them a $0.20 profit off of each flower sale).
>> 500=.2x

To make a profit of 500 dollars, Angelica's service club would need to sell 2500 flowers.