The variable assigments can be anything you like. It is often helpful to use variables that will remind you what they stand for. Here, we have chosen A = amount (final balance); P = principal (initial investment); r = rate.

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Tyler baked 702 cookies he sold them in boxes of 18 after selling all of the boxes of cookies for the same amount of each he ear

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<em>Cookies, boxes, sale, profit, unit cost </em>

For this case we have to bake an amount of 702 cookies, which were distributed in boxes of 18 for sale. Selling each box at the same price earned a profit of 136.50 dollars, you want to know the unit cost of each box of cookies.

Let $"x"$ be the number of boxes of cookies:

So, to know the number of boxes we divide 702 cookies among 18:

$x = \frac {702} {18}\\x = 39$

So, we have Tyler sold 39 boxes of cookies

Now, let $"y"$ be the cost of each box of cookies, to know the unit cost or sale price of the cookie boxes, we divided 136.50 dollars among 39 boxes of cookies, then: