PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! I GIVE MEDALS!!!!!

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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PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! I GIVE MEDALS!!!!!

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.

barrelracer011 · Answer

$500=.50f+40% That's your equation.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks :)

barrelracer011 · Answer

So to solve you would subtract 40% from $500 and you would get $300, so your new equation would be 300=.50f and to solve that you would divide $300 by .50 and you would get 600 so they would need to sell 600 flowers to get there profit of $500

barrelracer011 · Answer

Anytime :)