Question

An artist sells original hand-painted greeting cards. He makes $2.50 profit on a small card and $4.00 profit on a large card. He generally sells 5 large cards for every 2 small cards. He wants a profit of $10,000 from large and small cards this year.
a. Find the quantity of each card the artist needs to sell to reach his goal.
b. The artist can create a card every 12 minutes. How many hours will he need to make enough to reach his profit target if he sells them all?
c. What is the artists hourly rate of pay?

Answer 1

a)He must sell 5*400 or 2000 large and 2*400 or 800 small cards
b)The artist require 2800*12/60 hrs or 560 hrs to make the cards
c)It is 10000/560=$17.86 (up to 2 decimal points)

Answer 2

Thnx @KingKalanikau

Answer 3

no problem