Question

Jada and Alexandra sell spices at the marketplace. They each charge a constant price per kilogram of spices.

Jada has weekly expenses of $200. She covers her expenses and makes a profit of $280 for selling 80
kilograms of spices.
The graph of Alexandra's weekly profit (in dollars) as a function of the amount of spices sold (in kilograms) is
shown below.
Who has greater weekly expenses?

Answer 1

1: alexandra
2: they charge the same price

Explanation:

Answer 2

Alexandra has more weekly expenses.

Explanation:

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I am attaching the needed graph for the reference.

The weekly expense of Jade = $200

The amount of spices sold by Jade = 80 kg

Now, total profit = $280

So, the Total Earning for 80 KG spices = Expenses of Jade + Profit

= $200 + $280 = $480

⇒By selling 80 kg spices in market, Jade earned $480 in 1 week .....(1)

Now, Alexandra sold same amount of spices i.e 80 kg in the market.

Now,as we can in the graph given:

X axis : The Spices sold in KG

Y axis : The profit per week (in $)

So, as we can see from it, by selling 80 kg spices, the plot gives us the profit of $240.

⇒By selling 80 kg spices in market, Alexandra earned $240 profit in the same given 1 week .....(2)

by comparing (1) and (2)

Hence, we see that JADE EARNS MORE PROFIT by selling the same amount of spices in the market.

So, Alexandra has more weekly expenses.