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.
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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.
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anonymous · Answer

Okie then, so do you know to write the equation?

anonymous · Answer

nope

anonymous · Answer

Hmmmmmm ok so the purchase price for the flowers are?

anonymous · Answer

idk

anonymous · Answer

*$0.50* right?

anonymous · Answer

yup

anonymous · Answer

omg *facepalm* ok so moving on.

anonymous · Answer

lol

anonymous · Answer

see look idk tf im doing here ive been doing all my online school homework with the help of internet answers

anonymous · Answer

no i dont know pellet

anonymous · Answer

so angelica or whoever want to sell the flowers for the price that they bought them plus 40%               And same i feel you but most of the time i look at ones that help you solve it not just answers lol but ill help you lol  :D

anonymous · Answer

ok hold up fo first i need the equation

anonymous · Answer

were getting there lets see what your capable of lol  and what math are you taking online?

anonymous · Answer

alrebra 1

anonymous · Answer

Do you know how much they want to sell the flowers for?

anonymous · Answer

and same I knew this problem looked familiar

anonymous · Answer

well they bought each flower for .50

anonymous · Answer

yup and they want to add 40% to the price so they can make a profit so that leaves the sale price At??

anonymous · Answer

i did .50 * 40% and i got 0.2

anonymous · Answer

nope why would you multiply? they just want it added

anonymous · Answer

my caculator is being retarded i get the same answer if i add

anonymous · Answer

hmmmmmm
your calculator should get its crap together. and its actually $0.70

anonymous · Answer

ok

anonymous · Answer

ok so if they want to reach a price of 500 dollars then what do you think we should do next?

anonymous · Answer

add a variable

anonymous · Answer

yup so the equation should look something like this 0.7x=$500

anonymous · Answer

ty ok so equation is  0.7x=$500

anonymous · Answer

as in 0.7 is the price they are going to sell them, and  x= the amount they need to sell to reach 500

anonymous · Answer

now i need to eplain this :(

anonymous · Answer

oh ty

anonymous · Answer

nest is solution

anonymous · Answer

yup ok so now what you do is divide 500 by 0.7
and that should equal your x solution

anonymous · Answer

ty ty

anonymous · Answer

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtdecLpf01G2z_3KUlrBLPu6nnamuAfG133y7biDXPs/edit#

anonymous · Answer

couldyou maybe help me on the second question

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

why you leave i was just going to talk to you lol

anonymous · Answer

uhm im not leaving im trying to figure out how to show you the right equation @mark1