Question

You sell both cookies and bread at a Farmer's Market every Sunday. You sell the cookies for $5 a dozen and the bread for $3 a loaf.

Your cost each week is $25. How much was your profit for one week if you sold c dozen cookies and bloaves of bread?

Answer 1

(5c+3b)-25=profit

Explanation:

profit=cost-earnings. the earnings are 5 dollars times c cookies plus 3 dollars times b loaves. subtract 25 from that and there is your answer