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

I need help understanding the question and to figure out how to solve it my brain just cant get the hang of math today.

Answer 2

First, find out the price they will be selling the flowers at.

Answer 3

would it be.70?

Answer 4

Yes! :) Now, the whole equation needs to equal 500. So, Profit - cost of roses = 500

Answer 5

What would x represent?

Answer 6

would the number of flowers they need to sell be 2500?

Answer 7

I'm not even sure of that myself yet, since I haven't solved the formula. But the question asks you to find the formula, so lets focus on that first. :)

Answer 8

o ok

Answer 9

So qhat woud the x in the formula represent?

Answer 10

profit

Answer 11

Sorry, my earlier formula was wrong: Money received - cost of buying = profit

Answer 12

You already have the profit given, which is 500

Answer 13

so money received would be x

Answer 14

Well, x which actually be the amount of flowers, since that's the only variable you don't know.

Answer 15

o

Answer 16

Money received would be 70c per flower, right? and cost would be 50c per flower.

Answer 17

All of that needs to equal $500. So how would you make that into a formula?

Answer 18

so you would get a profit of .20c per flower and if you dived that into 500 you get 2500 right

Answer 19

Yep!

Answer 20

So .2x = 500. There's your formula!

Answer 21

thank you so much

Answer 22

Yep! No problem! If I helped, please consider giving me a medal. :)

Answer 23

Oh, thank you!

Answer 24

xD np