Question

You sell lemonade around town and you can make $0.30 from each bottle of lemonade. The total amount of money you earn is 0.3b, where b represents the number of bottles of lemonade you sell. If b = 30 bottles of lemonade, how much you can make?

Answer 1

$9

Explanation:

Cost per bottle of Lemonade = $0.30

Let b represent the number of bottles that you sell which is given as:

30 bottles

Equation for solving

= 0.30 × b

= 0.30b

Hence,

Total cost for 30 bottles of Lemonade is:

0.30 × 30

= $9

Hence, you can make $9 from selling 39 bottles of Lemonade.