Question

Part B
The seventh-grade class earned 40% of the selling price of each flower.

In September, they sold 900 flowers.
In October, they sold 700 flowers.

Select a choice from each drop-down menu to make a true statement.

The seventh-grade class earned more money in Choose one…. September October by Choose one…. $30 $75 $190

Answer 1

Are you told the selling price of each flower in Part A maybe?

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

So what is it?

Answer 4

The students at Midtown Middle school sold flowers as a fundraiser in September and October. In October, they charged $1.50 for each flower. The October price was a 20% increase of the September price.


Part A
What was the price of the flowers in September?

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$

Answer 5

$1.25

Answer 6

Well that's in October heh, now I see that there is a different price for september

Answer 7

Ok, so now let's see, what is 40% of $1.50?

Answer 8

2.5

Answer 9

40% of something cannot be bigger than that thing

Answer 10

0.6

Answer 11

First let's calculae 1% of 1.50, which will be \( 1\% = \frac{1.50}{100} = 0.015\)
Now let's calculate 40, which will be 40 times 1% so \(40\% = 0.015 \times 40 = 0.6 \)

Answer 12

right, so they earned 0.6 of each flower sold in october. let's see what is 40% of 1.25 as well

Answer 13

0.5

Answer 14

Exactly. so they earned $0.5 for every flower in september.
Now we are told they sold 900 flowers in september so it becomes \(0.5 \times 900 = 450\)
In october we calculated that they earned $0.6 for each flower, we are told they wold 700. so how much did they earn?

Answer 15

420

Answer 16

Right, so which they earned more? what's the difference?

Answer 17

September by $30

Answer 18

Right =)