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Thelma and Laura start a lawn-mowing business and buy a lawnmower for $225. They plan to charge $15 to mow one lawn. They would like to earn a profit of at least $750

Part A: Define a variable to represent the unknown quantity in this situation.

Part B: Write an inequality to represent the amount of money charged per lawn, the cost of the lawnmower and the profit.

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Answer:

I got  65

Step-by-step explanation:

The profit will be given as:

P=$15x−$225  

(where we subtracted the cost of the mower) so that  P=$750

x will be the required number of needed lawns.

We need to solve:

$750=$15x−$225  

rearranging:

x=$750+$225 /  $15  =65  lawns

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