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

could someone please help me

Answer 2

They set the sale price of each flower at the purchase price plus 40%

that means they sell the flower for 0.50 (the purchase price) plus 40% of 0.50
the profit is the 40% of 0.50

can you figure out what 40% of 0.50 is ?

Answer 3

o.2

Answer 4

Close, but it's not 0.2, try again

Answer 5

i keep getting 0.2 on my calculator

Answer 6

Don't do it on a calculator, do it on a piece of paper. Move the decimal over two places of the 40%, and you will get 0.4

Answer 7

than multiply that by 0.5 and get 0.2

Answer 8

Correct

Answer 9

so to get the sale price you just add 0.5 and 0.2?

Answer 10

If you sold 2 flowers, the profit would be 0.20 + 0.20
if you sold 3 flowers, the profit would be 0.20 +0.20+0.20
and so on.

It is easier to use multiplication: the profit for 3 flowers is 3* 0.20

what is the profit for x flowers (x is some number) ?

Answer 11

0.20x?

Answer 12

Yes

Answer 13

how did you get the 0,20

Answer 14

o i get it now

Answer 15

0.2 = 0.20

Answer 16

so the sale price is0.70 and the profit is0.20
(per flower)

Answer 17

Yes

The profit you get for selling x flowers (x is a number) is
Profit = 0.20x
or
0.20x = Profit

you want the profit to be 500, so you write
0.20 x = 500

now "solve" for x by dividing both sides by 0.20

Answer 18

x= 2500

Answer 19

Correct

Answer 20

so in order to make $500 they have to sell 2500 flowers

Answer 21

Yes

Answer 22

thank you so much for your help! you are amazing!

Answer 23

Your welcome :)