SOLUTION: A company charges $200 for each box of tools on orders of 150 or fewer boxes. If a customer orders x boxes in excess of 150, the cost of each box ordered is reduced by x dollars. I
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Question 349991: A company charges $200 for each box of tools on orders of 150 or fewer boxes. If a customer orders x boxes in excess of 150, the cost of each box ordered is reduced by x dollars. If a customer's bill came to $30,625, how many boxes were ordered?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
150 times 200 is 30000, so clearly more than 150 were ordered. Hence the price of each box is 
and the number of boxes ordered is 
, so:
(150\ +\ x)\ =\ 30625)
Solve for 
. Add to 150.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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