Answer: The answer is $1,317.50
Explanation:
First, Find how much they earn in the goods sale.
Make $1,700, their goal to earn, into 1,700/1 and set it to multiply that by 2/5, the fractional amount of money earnt at the goods sale proportional to how much they have to earn.
Simplify that by crossing 1,700 and 5 into a 340 and 1.
Multiply 340/1 by 2/1 to get 680/1.
Make that into a whole number ($680) to show how much money earnt from the goods sale.
Secondly, find how much money they earn by the Bingo Night
Make 1,700, like last time, into 1,700/1 and set it to multiply 3/8, the fractional amount of money earnt from the Bingo Night proportional to how much they have to earn
You can't simplify, so just multiply the amount.
If you multiply, you will get 5,100/8.
Divide 5,100 by 8 (the divisor by the dividend).
Make sure to also add the 0 after the tenths place after you get your quotient, which is supposed to be 637.5 (or $637.50)
Lastly, You have to add them up.
Add $637.50+$680.
You shall get $1,317.50