Question

Two Questions please help and explain

You spend $154 to make wooden bookends and plan to sell them online for $8.50 each. You will charge an additional $3.25 per bookend to wrap and ship them. How many bookends must you sell in order for your profit to be at least $600?
A) 40
B) 64
C) 65
D) 89


Erica has found a pair of running sneakers that she likes, costing $150. She has saved $31 already, and she has a job where she earns $8.50 per hour. How many hours will she have to work in order to afford the sneakers?
A) 17
B) 18
C) 22
D) 14

Answer 1

Question #2
Erica will have to work for 14 hours in order to buy her sneakers.
How to solve:
You subtract $31 from $150 which equals to $119
You multiply 8.50 (which is the amount of money she gets paid every hour) by the answers they gave you.
8.50 multiplied by 14 is 199
Erica had to work 14 hours to make $199

Your answer is D) 14

Answer 2

The first one is going to be C because when you like multiplying and them and then you're going to find your answer