T = Total income
N = Number of purses
35N = the selling price of each purse
17N = Cost of each purse
T = 35*N - 17*N - 75
T = 18N - 75
If she wants here total income to be 350 dollars, it will take
T = 350 ; N = unknown.
350 = 18N - 75 Add 75 to both sides.
350 + 75 = 18N
425 = 18N
Rounded N = 24 <<<< Answer. The actually number is 23.611 but you can't sell 0.611 of a purse.
So what you would do is divide 988 by 26 and divide 731 by 17 and those two numbers you would add which gives you the amount of people that attended the performance
Put an open circle pointing to the left on -1
X = unknown number
10x - 16 = 2x
Subtract 10x from both sides to isolate the variable on the right side of the equation.
-16 = -8x
Divide both sides by -8 to get x alone.
2 = x
