93.7k views
3 votes
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?

User Kdkeck
by
8.1k points

1 Answer

4 votes

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.

User Klobucar
by
8.3k points

No related questions found

Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

9.4m questions

12.2m answers

Categories