Question

Henry and Holly catch crawfish which they sell to a local Cajun restaurant. The restaurant pays them $3.80 a pound for live crawfish that are large enough. 5% of the crawfish die before they can deliver them to the restaurant and 7% of the live crawfish are too small.

Identify an expression which represents how much money they make per pound of crawfish they catch.

Answer 1

The eexpression which represents how much money they make per pound of crawfish they catch is: 3.3573x

Solution:

Let "x" be the number of craw fish they catch

Given that,

The restaurant pays them $3.80 a pound for live crawfish that are large enough

5% of the crawfish die before they can deliver them to the restaurant

7% of the live crawfish are too small.

Therefore, expression which represents how much money they make per pound of crawfish they catch is given as:

`Money\ earned = 3.80 * (1 - 5 \% ) * (1 - 7 \% ) * x\\\\Money\ earned = 3.80 * ( 1 - 0.05) * (1 - 0.07) * x\\\\Money\ earned = 3.80 * 0.95 * 0.93 * x\\\\Money\ earned = 3.3573x`

Thus the expression is found