Question

Pet supplies makes a profit of $5.50 per bag on it’s line of natural dog food. If the store wants to make a profit of NO LESS THAN $5225, how many bags of dog food does it need to sell???

10 pts for a clear explanation

Answer 1

the pet store needs to sell 950 or more bags of dog food.

Explanation:
Let’s define our variable: x= number of bags of dog food.
Since we need to make more than or 5225 dollars, we need to make an inequality to show this.

`5.50x\geq 5225`

Let’s solve the inequality.

`5.50x/5.50 \geq 5225/5.50`

`x\geq 950`

So, the pet store needs to sell 950 or more bags of dog food.

Answer 2

950 bags of dog food,
because 5225 divided by 5.50 is 950
I think this is correct