SOLUTION: A restaurant has fixed costs of $148.75 per day and an average unit cost of $5.75 for each meal served. If a typical meal costs $7, how many customers must eat at the restaurant ea

Question 1160593: A restaurant has fixed costs of $148.75 per day and an average unit cost of $5.75 for each meal served. If a typical meal costs $7, how many customers must eat at the restaurant each day for the owner to break even?

Answer by ikleyn(52776) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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How the problem is worded, it makes me scared.

Probably, you want to say that the restaurant buys the meal outside (from the source) at the buying price of $5.75
and sales to the customers at $7.00.

If so, then the equation is


    7.00x = 148.75 + 5.75x.


The solution is


    x =  = 119 meals.     ANSWER

Solved.

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