Question

Mia is helping her glee club raise money to fund a field trip. The glee club secided to sell pencils, which come in boxes of 100. Each pencil sells for $25. Write an equation using b for boxes and m for total money made answer

Answer 1

m = 2500b

Explanation:

As instructed,

let b = number of boxes sold

let m = total money made.

The total money made, is a function of the number of boxes sold.

Let me break this down:

There are 100 pencils in a box;

if they sold only one box, they will get 100 X $25 = $2500;

if they sold two boxes, they will get 200 X $25 = $5000;

if they sold three boxes, they will get 300 X $25 = $7500;

Following the trend, we can deduce that money made, m = (number of boxes sold X 100 ) X $25

representing this using the variables we were given, we have

m = 100b X 25

hence

m = 2500b