## anonymous one year ago Angelica's service club is selling flowers for a fundraiser. Each flower costs them $0.50 to purchase. They set the sale price of each flower at the purchase price plus 40%. Write and solve an equation to determine how many flowers they will need to sell to make a profit of$500. Use complete sentences to explain what each number and variable in your equation represents. Write your solution in the context of the original problem.

1. jim_thompson5910

hint: $\Large \text{sale price} = \text{purchase price}+0.40\times\left(\text{purchase price}\right)$ the "0.40" refers to the 40%. This is known as the markup.

2. anonymous

ok

3. jim_thompson5910

let me know if that's enough to get started

4. anonymous

im still confused im not very good at algebra

5. jim_thompson5910

what's the purchase price?

6. anonymous

all i know is they need to make a $500 profit 7. jim_thompson5910 they give it to you in the problem 8. anonymous i think they would need to sell 2500 flowers 9. jim_thompson5910 how did you get that number? 10. anonymous 0.20f = 500 f = 500/0.20 11. jim_thompson5910 very good, the sale price is$0.70 so they make 20 cents per flower

12. anonymous

ahh ok

13. anonymous

theres another question that is very hard for me