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. can some one happy

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Jakobe Copeland

27 May, 12:20

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. can some one happy

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Naima Compton · Answer 1

Each flower is bought at a price of $.50 and sold at 40%more = 140/100*0.50=$0.7

Hence they gain p=.7-.5=$0.2 per flower sold.

We are looking for the number n of flowers they need to sell to make a profit of $500.

We must hence solve 500=n*p

n=500/p=500/.2 hence n=2500 flowers