SOLUTION: the parent teacher organization is selling baskets of cookies for a school fundraiser. The materials needed to make each basket cost $3.75, and the baskets are being sold for $10 e

Question 1082501: the parent teacher organization is selling baskets of cookies for a school fundraiser. The materials needed to make each basket cost $3.75, and the baskets are being sold for $10 each. If they spend $75 to advertise their sale, how many baskets must be sold in order to break even?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The break even point is where profit,
and ( sales minus cost )
Let = th number of baskets sold

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Set

12 must be sold to break even

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