A grocer pays $7.00 for each carton of 14 cantaloupes. Which inequality describes p, the set of prices, in dollars, that he can charge for each cantaloupe to make more than $1.00 profit on each one?

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A grocer pays $7.00 for each carton of 14 cantaloupes. Which inequality describes p,  the set of prices, in dollars, that he can charge for each cantaloupe to make more than $1.00 profit on each one?

phi · Answer

$7.00 for each carton of 14 cantaloupes.

that means 14 cantaloupes cost $7
how much does one cantaloupe cost?  any idea?

anonymous · Answer

50 cents.

phi · Answer

yes, or $0.50

you do $7/14 =  $1/2  or  $0.50

phi · Answer

he wants more than $1.00 profit on each one
which means more than $1 above his cost of $0.50

he will want to charge more than $1 + $0.50  =  $1.50

do you know how to write the inequality to show p (for price) is bigger than 1.50 ?

anonymous · Answer

p>1.50

phi · Answer

yes.  you put the "big side" of > next to the bigger "thing" , in this case p
and the "small side" of > next to the smaller number 1.50

anonymous · Answer

ok, thank you very much! this wa my first time asking a question so do i leave this up or do i close? im not sure how this works exactly

phi · Answer

close it, otherwise it clutters up the list of open questions.

anonymous · Answer

thanks