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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anonymous · Answer

first you need to right an equation for this problem

anonymous · Answer

right, and i don't know what the equation will look like

anonymous · Answer

do you know what the form y=mx+b is???

anonymous · Answer

yea, but what does that have anything to do with this equation? i don't understand? could you please explain?

anonymous · Answer

it has to do with equation because to make the equation you have to put it in that format

anonymous · Answer

sooo, then what you plug-in for the slope?

anonymous · Answer

the slope would be .50

anonymous · Answer

and y would be 500?

anonymous · Answer

it would be .50nbecause you are trying to find out how many flowers you can sell for .50

anonymous · Answer

oh okay, i got it thanks

anonymous · Answer

your welcome