Question

4 Your school is having a fundraiser. You are selling candy bars that have been donated by the Hershey

Company. You set a personal goal of raising $200 for your school and met that goal. You sold a total of 120

candy bars and one neighbor gave you a 20 donation without taking any candy bars. Write and solve an

equation to determine how much each candy bar sold for

Answer 1

The cost of each candy bar is $1.5.

Explanation:

Consider the provided information.

You set a personal goal of raising $200 for your school and met that goal. You sold a total of 120 candy bars and one neighbor gave you a 20 donation without taking any candy bars.

Let the cost of candy bars represented by x.

You sold a total of 120 candy bars.

The cost of 120 candy bars is: 120x

Your neighbor gave you a $20 donation and you met that goal.

Therefore, the required equation will be:
`120x+20=200`

Now solve the above equation as shown below:

`120x+20=200`

`120x=200-20`

`120x=180`

`(120x)/(120)=(180)/(120)`

`x=1.5`

Hence, the cost of each candy bar is $1.5.