Question

Devon is making greeting cards, which she will sell by the box at an arts fair. She paid $20 for a booth at the fair, and the materials for each box of cards cost $6. She will sell the cards for $10 per box of cards. At some point, she will sell enough cards so that her sales cover her expenditures. How much will the sales and expenditures be? How many cards will that take?

Answer 1

First, let's find out how much money Devon needs to earn to cover her expenditures. She paid $20 for the booth and $6 for the materials for each box of cards, so her total expenditures will be $20 + $6 = $26.

Next, let's find out how many boxes of cards she needs to sell in order to earn enough money to cover her expenditures. She'll sell each box of cards for $10, so she'll need to sell $26 / $10 = 2.6 boxes of cards (rounded up to 3 boxes).

So, her sales will be 3 boxes * $10 per box = $30. And her expenditures and sales will both be $30