You work a deal with the farmer’s market so that your total expenses are simply $90. Write an inequality that finds the weeks that the business is profitable

Question

can you tell me how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

If the total expenses are $90/day, your the business is profitable if the amount you sold minus your expenses is greater than 0.

 

For example, if you only sold $80 worth of food that day, the food does not cover the cost of the expenses. However, if you sold $100 worth of food that day, $90 of that amount goes to your expenses & you get to keep the other $10.

 

So, the business is profitable if:

s - 90 > 0, where s is the amount sold in dollars that day.

 

So, your business is profitable if you sell more than $90 worth of goods.

 

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