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

If they buy a flower at $0.50, and they plan to get 40% profit from it, how much does it cost for a flower they sell?

anonymous · Answer

70 cents?

anonymous · Answer

yes, so that for 1 flower, they get 20 cents, right?

anonymous · Answer

Now, $500 = 50000 cents, ok?
1flower --------get ------20 cents
need                                     50000cents, 
How many flowers they have to sell to get 50000 cents?

anonymous · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

Calculate the number of flowers they have to sell to get 50000cents

anonymous · Answer

2500?