Question

A local talent is selling underground CD's to get his rap career off the ground. Each crate contains 75 blank CD's. Each crate cost $40. How much should he sell his CD's to make a profit of $185?

Answer 1

Let x be the sell cost of each CD.

Assuming we sell all the CD's we are going to have a total of:

$75x$

of cash, to this we have to substract the cost of the crate, then we have:

$75x-40$

and we like this to be $185, then we have:

$75x-40=185$

Solving for x we have:

$\begin{gathered} 75x-40=185 \\ 75x=225 \\ x=\frac{225}{75} \\ x=3 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the artis have to sell the CD's in $3