Question

A newspaper company spends $15,000 on supplies and $2 to print each copy of the newspaper. The company intends to sell each copy for $5 each and has advertising revenue of $6,000. How many newspaper copies must be sold for the company to break even.

Answer 1

3,000

Explanation:

Create 2 expressions to represent the cost and the revenue, where x is the number of newspapers:

2x + 15,000 will represent the cost

5x + 6,000 will represent the revenue

Set the expressions equal to each other and solve for x:

2x + 15,000 = 5x + 6,000

15,000 = 3x + 6,000

9,000 = 3x

3,000 = x

So, 3,000 newspaper copies have to be sold to break even