Question

kelly has a small business making dessert baskets. she estimates that her fixed weekly costs for rent and electricity are $200. the ingredients for one dessert basket cost $2.50. if casey made 40 baskets this past week, what were her total weekly costs

Answer 1

Her total weekly costs were $300

Step-by-step explanation:

Kelly has a small business making dessert baskets

• She estimates that her fixed weekly costs for rent and electricity are $200
• The ingredients for one dessert basket cost $2.50
• If she made 40 baskets this past week

We need to find her total weekly costs

∵ The estimates that her fixed weekly costs for rent and electricity

   are $200

∵ The ingredients for one dessert basket cost $2.50

- Her weekly cost = fixed weekly cost + the cost of one basket ×

    the number of baskets she made that week

∴ Her weekly cost = 200 + 2.5 × number of baskets

∵ She made 40 basket that week

- Substitute the number of the baskets by 40 in the equation

∴ Her weekly cost = 200 + 2.50(40)

∴ Her weekly cost = 200 + 100

∴ Her weekly cost = 300 dollars

Her total weekly costs were $300

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