Question

Jerome spent $20 on supplies to make 50 cookies for a bake sale. Write and solve an inequality to find the price that Jerome should charge for each cookie if he wants to have a profit of more than $25.00

Answer 1

Answer:

Each cookie will have to be sold for at least $0.90 if the profit is to be made is more than $25.

Step-by-step explanation:

The amount spent on supplies is $20.

The number of cookies baked is = 50.

If the profit to be made is more than $25.00 .

Then we can safely say that all the cookies have to be sold for

= $20.00 + $25.00

= $45.00

Therefor the required inequality can be written as

50 x ≥ $45.00            ⇒       x   ≥   $\frac{45.00}{50}$            ⇒      x   ≥  $0.90.

Therefore we can say that each cookie will have to be sold for at least $0.90 if the profit is to be made is more than $25.