Question

Your ice-cream cart can hold 550 frozen treats. Your friend Anna also has an ice-cream cart and sold frozen treats last summer. She has agreed to help you decide which frozen treats to sell.

Table 1 displays the cost to you, the selling price, and the profit of some frozen treats.

Choco bar cost you $0.75 ea, selling price $2.00, profit for each sale $1.25

Ice cream sandwich cost you $0.85 each, selling price $2.25, profit $1.40

Frozen fruit bar cost you $0.50 each, selling price $1.80, profit $1.30



Your budget is to spend no more than $450 on frozen treats.
Enter an inequality to represent the number of chocolate fudge bars, c, the
number of ice-cream sandwiches, I, and the number of frozen fruit bars, F,
that will cost you no more than $450.

Answer 1

Answer: The ice cream sandwich has the highest profit margin of $1.40 per sale.

Explanation: To maximize profits, you need to consider the profit margin of each frozen treat. The profit margin is the difference between the selling price and the cost to you. Among the three options, the ice cream sandwich has the highest profit margin of $1.40 per sale, which means you will earn $1.40 in profit for each ice cream sandwich sold.