Question

There are 12 players on a new softball team. Before the team starts playing games, the team must pay a total registration fee of $572. Along with the registration fee, the team also need to spend a total of 1,240 on equipment. To pay for the cost of the registration fee and the equipment, the players held a car wash and raised $786. They then decided to sell candles for $9.50 per candle to cover the remaining costs. If each player sells the same number of candles, how many candles must each player sell?

Answer 1

Each player would have to sell 9 candles.

This can be found by adding $1,240 and $572. This gives you $1,812 which you'd subtract $786 (how much they already have) from $1,812 to get $1,026.
Next you'd multiply $9.50 by 12 (number of players) to get 114. Finally you divide 1,026 by 114, to get the number of candles (9).

I hope this helps!!