Question

The World Issues club has decided to donate 60% of all their fundraising activities this year to Stephen Lewis Foundation. This foundation was created to help ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Lewis, a Canadian, works for the United Nations trying to determine ways to stop the spread of this deadly disease from crippling an entire continent. a) Choose a variable to represent the money earned during fundraising activities and the revenue generated for the foundation b) Use these variables to create an equation that will determine the amount of money the foundation will receive.

Answer 1

Explanation:

a)/Let x represent the amount of money earned by the World Issues club for all their fundraising activities this year.

Let y represent the revenue generated for the foundation.

b) The World Issues club has decided to donate 60% of all their fundraising activities this year to Stephen Lewis Foundation. Therefore, an equation that will determine the amount of money the foundation will receive is

60/100 × x = y

0.6x = y