SOLUTION: The members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200,000 airplane. The members want to 5 more people to join the club so that the cost per person will decrease by

Question 160728: The members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200,000 airplane. The members want to 5 more people to join the club so that the cost per person will decrease by $2,000. How many members are currently in the club?
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, ankor@dixie-net.com:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let N be the number of members in the club now.
The per-person price now is,

The per-person price when 5 more join is,

You also know that,

Substitute for your expression with N,

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A negative answer doesn't make sense in our case.

There are 20 members currently.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(2008-10-06 21:30:37): The members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200,000 airplane. The members want to 5 more people to join the club so that the cost per person will decrease by $2,000. How many members are currently in the club?
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We can deal with this in $1000's Plane cost $200, cost decrease is $2
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Let x = no. members currently in the club
then
= cost per member now
and
= cost if 5 more members join
:
The equation:
- 2 =
:
Multiply equation by x(x+5), results
200(x+5) - 2(x(x+5) = 200x
200x + 1000 - (2x^2 + 10x) = 200x
:
200x + 1000 - 2x^2 - 10x - 200x = 0
:
-2x^2 - 10x + 1000 = 0
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Simplify divide equation by -2
+x^2 + 5x - 500 = 0
Factor
)x-20)(x+25) = 0
Positive solution
x = 20 members currently
:
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Check solution find the actual costs
200000/20 = $10000
200000/25 = $8000

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