SOLUTION: An artist will sell paintings at $20 each. If the cost of an exhibit booth is $80, how many paintings must he sell in order to make a profit of $600?
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Question 954548: An artist will sell paintings at $20 each. If the cost of an exhibit booth is $80, how many paintings must he sell in order to make a profit of $600?
Answer by aYummyNoodle(10) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
As the exhibit booth costs $80, he must sell $680 worth of paintings to make a profit of $600. Dividing that by 20 gives us 34. So he must sell 34 paintings to make a profit of $600.
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