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Joshua's goal is to sell more than 20 items at a farmers' market. So far, he has sold 6 items. Each of his customers buys 2 items. Let c represent the number of additional customers Joshua must have to meet his goal Joshua needs to have more than ? Area additional customer to meet his goal.

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Answer:

More than 7

Explanation:

Given that:

Joshua's goal is to sell more than 20 items at a farmer's market.

Number of items already sold = 6

So, number of more items to be sold > Total number of items to be sold - Number of items already sold > 20 - 6 > 14

Given that each customer buys 2 items.

Let
c be the number of customers.

So, number of items bought be the customers = Number of items bought by each customer multiplied by the number of customers =
2c

And as per the question statement,

Number of more items to be sold > 14 (as calculated in above step)


2c>14\\\Rightarrow \bold{c>7}

Therefore, the answer is: More than 7 additional customers are required.

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