Question

The income from the spanish club bake sale was $465. Expense for the sale totlaed $50. Using integer addition find the total profit or loss from the bake sale

Answer 1

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Answer:

profit: $415

Explanation:

Profit = Income - Expense

= $465 - 50

= $415

The profit from the bake sale was $415.

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If you consider the above subtraction not to be "integer addition," then the equation you want to evaluate is ...

profit = $465 + (-50) = $415

Subtraction is the same as addition of the opposite.