The battery dealer question.
PRICE is COST compared to QUANTITY of items.
Price is the ratio of cost of the items to quantity of the items.
cost q q
quantity x 100
price p p
The first sentence for the description will give you .
Second sentence describes a price change for this dealer to sell his batteries. Fifty percent above the originial price is same as .
Question asks, what is this in terms of q. Substitute for p according to the previous equation.
---------this is the price which the dealer will use for each battery.
Analyze the description each phrase, identify relevant basic facts and relationships or concepts, write expressions and equations.
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m, x, and y:
What does the description tell you, literally?
Put it in symbols. Do it! This one is not any mystery, requiring much less effort than the battery dealer problem.