Question

Winston ears $14.00 by selling 56 hot dogs at a concession stand at school. Using the same for the cost of one hot dog, how many more hot dogs would Winston need to sell to earn a total 175.00?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

the other answer is absolutely correct.

just the last part was not fully explained :

the question was how many additional hot dogs have to be sold to earn $175 in total ?

to make $175, 700 hot dogs have to be sold.

but 56 have been sold already (for the initial $14 earnings).

so, 700 - 56 = 644 additional hot dogs have to be sold.

Answer 2

To make $175, he has to sell 644 hotdogs.

Explanation:

Lets do this together step by step.

To calculate the cost of a single hot dog, divide the profit recieved by the number of hot dogs.

So that would be 14/56 which would result in $0.25.

Now we know that 1 hot dog = 25 cents.

Now, all of the money we receive ( $175) comes from selling a certain number of hot dogs.

We can see that in order to calculate how many hotdogs we could buy with this sum of money, we would need to divide the total by the price of each hot dog.

175/0.25 = 700 ( Thats quite a lot.)

700-56 =644

He has to sell 644 hotdogs to earn $175.