How do I find how much money they made?

Question

To raise money the youth club bought 90 kg of pecans for $297.90. They sold the pecans in 250 g bags for $1.90 each. How much profit did they make?

Answer 1

So first you want to convert kg to g

1kg=1,000g

So, 90kg=90,000g

they bought 90,000g of pecans for $297.90

they are selling them in 250g bags for $1.90

we have to figure out how many 250 g bags they can get from all the pecans they have. To do this we divide 90,000 by 250.

90,000/250=360

so they will sell 360 bags of pecans.

To find the profit, first you need to find how much money they will make selling those 360 bags. So you multiply 360x$1.90.

360 x $1.90= $684

So they will make $684 from selling all the pecans, but we want to find the profit, so we need to subtract the amount of money they spent to buy the pecans.

$684 - $297.90 = $386.10

So their profit is, $386.10