SOLUTION: A company that manufactures boxes recently purchased $2000 worth of new equipment to offer gift boxes to its customers. the cost of producing a package of gift boxes is $1.50 and i

Question 767871: A company that manufactures boxes recently purchased $2000 worth of new equipment to offer gift boxes to its customers. the cost of producing a package of gift boxes is $1.50 and it is sold for $4.00. Find the number of packages that must be sold for the company to break even.
please put the problem in system equation form which is {Ax+By=z
Gx+Hy=c before you compute them. thank you

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
n is number of boxes to produce and sell.
Money gone out: 2000 + 1.50n
Money coming in: 4.00n
Break-Even: 2000+1.50n=4.00n

Solve for n in

800 packages.
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