The space club printer charges $250 plus $2 per poster.How many posters can be printed for $1000

Question

the space club is having some posters printed the printer charges $250 plus $2 per poster how many posters can be printed for $1000

 

Answer 1

We can take this word problem and write an equation, y=2x+250, where x is the number of posters and y is the total cost of printing x amount of posters.  Because we want to find out how many posters can be printed with $1000, we can set y equal to 1000 and solve for x.  

 

1000=2x+250

750=2x

375=x

 

We can print 375 posters for $1000.