Question

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.

Answer 1

ok

Answer 2

@gorv

Answer 3

what

Answer 4

@nirmalnema

Answer 5

let x be 40% of 0.5
x=0.5*40 /100
x=0.2
they have to earn total profit of $500
the require to sell total no of flowers be y.
they are getting a profit of 0.2 on each flower
500/0.2 be total flowers sold =2500

Answer 6

do u get that..!! @yololifelove

Answer 7

yes thank u :)