Question

A seafood restaurant claims an increase of $1,750.00 over its average profit during a week where it introduced a special of baked clams
a. If this is true, how much extra profit did it receive per day?

b. if it had, instead, lost $150 per day, how much money would it have lost for the week?

c. If it's total loss was $490 for the week, what was its average daily change?

Answer 1

Hello! I can help you with this! There are 7 days in 1 week. For these questions, we’re gonna have to do some division and a bit of multiplication.

a. 1,750 is the amount gained over 1 week. Let’s divide. 1,750/7 is 250. If that is true, then the seafood restaurant received $250 of extra profit each day.

b. This is the loss of $150 per day. To find the answer to this problem, all you have to do is 150 * 7. When you do that, you get 1,050. The restaurant would’ve lost $1,050 for the week.

c. This is the lost of $490 in one week. Again, to find the answer to this, divide. 490/7 = 70. The average daily change was $70.