You have a $500 public relations budget for the current year. You would like to generate publicity by publishing several ads in the local township newspaper about your store's sponsorship of community activities. The newspaper normally charges $75 per ad but will give you a 20% discount since your message is community service-oriented. How many ads can you buy?

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Ishaan Peters

12 November, 15:21

You have a $500 public relations budget for the current year. You would like to generate publicity by publishing several ads in the local township newspaper about your store's sponsorship of community activities. The newspaper normally charges $75 per ad but will give you a 20% discount since your message is community service-oriented. How many ads can you buy?

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Hayley Floyd · Answer 1

8 ads

Step-by-step explanation:

To start off, we know we have a budget of $500 which means we cannot go above that amount. Ads cost $75 each but in our case they are now 20% cheaper. Lets figure out the new price of the ads. Remember to change 20% into its decimal form (20% - > 0.2)

75 x 0.2 = 15

Now we subtract 15 from 75 to get our new ad price.

75 - 15 = 60

Now to figure out how many ads we can get with a budget of $500, we simply divide 500 by 60. Don't forget to round the answer to the nearest whole number since we cannot go over our budget.

500 / 60 = 8 ads