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Anna is analyzing her greeting card business's profits. She wants more than 40% of the price p of her greeting cards to be profit. If c represents Anna's cost to make a greeting card, which inequality represents the desired relationship between price and cost?

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If she wants more than 40% of the price as profit, it means she wants more than 140% (1.4) of the cost.

The inequality that represents this situation is


p>1.4c

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