Question

Katrina is going to order sweatshirts for her girls mentoring group. The sweatshirts will have the group logo printed on the front. Katrina asks two local companies to give her a price. • MH Designs will charge $21.50 for each of the sweatshirts. • Print Rich will charge $18 for each sweatshirt plus a one-time setup cost of $70. Justify how to determine the number of sweatshirts Katrina would need to order from each company for the costs to be the same.

Answer 1

To determine the number of sweatshirts Katrina would need to order from each company for the costs to be the same, set up an equation 21.50x = 18x + 70 and solve for x.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the number of sweatshirts Katrina would need to order from each company for the costs to be the same, we can set up an equation.

Let's start with MH Designs. The cost per sweatshirt is $21.50, so the total cost would be 21.50x, where x is the number of sweatshirts Katrina orders.

Now let's look at Print Rich. The cost per sweatshirt is $18, and there is a one-time setup cost of $70. So the total cost would be 18x + 70.

To make the costs equal, we set up the equation 21.50x = 18x + 70. We can then solve for x.

Answer 2

20

Step-by-step explanation:

Because 21.50 x 20 =430

and 18 x 20 = 360

then you add 70 to 360 and you get 430

so Katrina would have to order 20 shirts from each company in order for the cost to be the same.