Question

The ski club at a local school wants to hold a bake sale. They are selling cookies for five dollars a dozen. Their supplies cost the club sixty dollars. Write an equation that models their fundraising efforts. Use y for their total amount of money they will ultimately earn for their club and the variable x for how many dozens of cookies they will sell during the fundraiser.
a) y=5x+60

b) y=60

c) y=5x

d) y=5x−60

Answer 1

Their costs are $60 and the earn $5 per dozen cookies sold, so their profit, or what this question says they earn is:

y=5x-60