Question

Members of the choir are baking cookies for a fundraiser. It costs $2.25 to make a dozen cookies,and the choirs initial expenses were $15.75. They sell the cookies for $4.50 a dozen. How many dozen do that have to sell to cover their cost

Answer 1

Replace the number of dozens by x.

Expenses = 2.25x + 15.75
Money made = 4.50x

Compare the 2 equations :
2.25x + 15.75 = 4.50x

Solve for x by moving things around to isolate the x :

15.75 = 4.50x - 2.25x
15.75 = 2.25x
15.75/2.25 = x
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