Question

Susana makes tacos that she would like to sell at anupcoming school fair. She must pay $75 to rent abooth at the school fair. The ingredients for each tacocost $1.25, and she plans to sell each taco for $3.50.To make a profit, she must make more money than shespends. Susana has already made 15 tacos.Part A (first textbox) Write and solve an inequality toshow how many tacos Susana should make in order tomake some profit. Show the steps of your solutions.Part B (second textbox) Given that Susana has alreadymade 15 tacos, how many additional tacos must shemake and sell to make a profit? Answer in a completesentence.I’m

Answer 1

She spends:

$75 rent

$1.25 ingredients for each taco.

Then, she need to earn more than $75+$1.25*15=$93.75

The inequality that represents the situation would be:

$\begin{gathered} 3.5x+75>93.75 \\ 3.5x>93.5-75 \\ 3.5x>18.75 \\ x>\frac{18.75}{3.25} \\ x>5.76 \\ x>6 \end{gathered}$

Susana should make at least 6 tacos to make some profit.