Johnny wants to start making and selling surfboards. His costs are the large sum of money that includes his initial investment and the cost of materials for each surfboard. He has already planned how much he is going to sell his surfboards for. Explain how Johnny can set up a system of equations to predict when he will start to make a profit.

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Profit = - Initial Investment - cost of materials*x +selling price of board *x. Find when this equals zero then anytime after that it would be positive it would be profit.