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One magazine club charges a $75 membership fee plus $3 per magazine. Another club charges $6 per magazine, but has no membership fee. How many magazines would you need to buy to justify becoming a member of the first club?

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Final answer:

To justify becoming a member of the first club, you would need to buy more than 25 magazines.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many magazines you would need to buy to justify becoming a member of the first club, you need to compare the total cost of buying magazines from each club.

For the first club, you have a membership fee of $75 plus $3 per magazine. Let's call the number of magazines x. So the total cost for the first club is 75 + 3x.

For the second club, there is no membership fee but each magazine costs $6. So the total cost for the second club is 6x.

To find out when it becomes more cost-effective to join the first club, you need to set up an equation:

75 + 3x < 6x

Simplify the equation:

75 < 6x - 3x

75 < 3x

Divide both sides by 3:

25 < x

Therefore, you would need to buy more than 25 magazines to justify becoming a member of the first club.

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