Question

You spend $11 to buy supplies for making socks and plan on selling them for $2 each pair. Find the number of pairs you have to sell in order to make a profit.

Let s represent the number of pairs of socks, In order to make a profit, you must sell enough socks to earn more than $11, so u have the inequality: 2s>11

How many pairs of socks do u have to sell in order to make a profit?

Answer 1

s = 6

Explanation:

In order to make a profit, you must sell more than $11 worth of socks, as that was how much it cost to buy the products to make them. If you sell each pair for $2, then you would need to sell 6 of them in order to make a profit. 6 times $2 is $12, and 12 > 11.