Question

Anna is analyzing her greeting card business's profits. She wants more than 40% of the price p of her greeting cards to be profit. If c represents Anna's cost to make a greeting card, which inequality represents the desired relationship between price and cost?

Answer 1

If she wants more than 40% of the price as profit, it means she wants more than 140% (1.4) of the cost.

The inequality that represents this situation is

$p>1.4c$