Question

Jeff has a job at baseball park selling bags of peanuts .he get paid $12 a game and 1.75 per bag of peanuts they sell .how many bags if peanuts does he need to sell in order to earn $54 in one

Answer 1

Let x be the number of peanut bags Jeff sells. Since he earns $1.75 per bag the total amount he earns for selling x bags is:

`1.75x`

Now, to this we have to add the $12 he gets paid, then the total amount he earns is:

`1.75x+12`

To find out how many bags he has to sell to earn $52 we equate the expression above with the amount and solve for x:

`\begin{gathered} 1.75x+12=54 \\ 1.75x=54-12 \\ 1.75x=42 \\ x=(42)/(1.75) \\ x=24 \end{gathered}`

therefore he has to sell 24 bags to earn $54.