1.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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mertsj · Answer

How much are they going to charge for each flower?

anonymous · Answer

50 cent

mertsj · Answer

50 cents is what they have to pay for the flowers.  How are they going to make any money if they sell them for the same price they pay?

mertsj · Answer

If you bought a CD for $10 and sold it to me for $10 would you make any money?

anonymous · Answer

O no okay 50 plus 40% 70

mertsj · Answer

How much is that?

anonymous · Answer

70 cent

mertsj · Answer

So how much will they make on each flower they sell?

anonymous · Answer

20 cent

mertsj · Answer

so on x flowers they will make .20x dollars.

mertsj · Answer

And they want their total profit to be $500

anonymous · Answer

so x=2500

mertsj · Answer

Excellent!!!  Wow.  That is a lot of flowers they have to sell.  Maybe they should charge 50 cents + 50%

anonymous · Answer

Haha maybe they will have a rush of people that need flowers all the sudden haha thank you a lot haha

mertsj · Answer

For their sake, we hope so.
You're welcome.