Help? Will give medal :) no answer I just need someone to help me by walking me through it.
1. 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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Help? Will give medal :) no answer I just need someone to help me by walking me through it.
1.	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.

anonymous · Answer

The answer is 0.5 and or 1/2

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

I got 333.3 repeated basically what you have to do is .5x40 because of 40% which comes up with a price of $2 but cost $.50 so you do 2.00-.50=1.50 and then you divide $500 by $1.50

anonymous · Answer

@wen513034 can you tell me how you got that answer?