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. Create an equation, then use complete sentences to explain what each number and variable in your equation represents. Write your solution in the context of the original problem.
Equation:

Explanation:

Solution:

Answer 1

P = the profit they make
n = the number of flowers they sell
m = the mark-up of the flowers
c = the cost of a flower

Then

P = mcn - cn

Rearrange to find n

P = n(mc - c)

n = P / (mc - c)

Substituting values

n = 500 / (1.4*0.5 - 0.5)

n = 2500

They must sell 2500 flowers to make a profit of $500.

Answer 2

also so they sell a flower at 140% from the original price that would be
0.50$......100%
x$.............140%
x= 0.50*140/100=0.70$ a flower
to make 500$ you should sell 500/0.70= 714 flowers

Answer 3

i saw that one on someones openstudy question i jinda wanted a difrent answer

Answer 4

its not really helping when you copy some ones answers lol i already look at the other one where you copied the answers from

Answer 5

lol now she leaves hahaha