Question

A local talent is selling underground CD's to get his rap career off the ground. Each crate contains 75 blank CD's. Each crate cost $40. How much should he sell his CD's to make a profit of $185?

Answer 1

Let x be the sell cost of each CD.

Assuming we sell all the CD's we are going to have a total of:

`75x`

of cash, to this we have to substract the cost of the crate, then we have:

`75x-40`

and we like this to be $185, then we have:

`75x-40=185`

Solving for x we have:

`\begin{gathered} 75x-40=185 \\ 75x=225 \\ x=(225)/(75) \\ x=3 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the artis have to sell the CD's in $3