SOLUTION: The booster club sets up a hot dog stand for fundraising at a middle school. The club receives $14 in donations while members set up the stand. The club sells hot dogs for $1.50.

Question 1101637: The booster club sets up a hot dog stand for fundraising at a middle school. The club receives $14 in donations while members set up the stand. The club sells hot dogs for $1.50. Each hot dog costs the club $0.25 and other supplies cost $54. The club wants to know how many hot dogs they must sell to break even (breaking even occurs when income equals expenses) Write an equation that represents this situtation, where H represents the number of hot dogs sold. Then solve the equation.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of hot dogs sold
Let = their total cost for hot dogs sold

Let = revenue from sales of hot dogs

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The break even point is where

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32 hot dogs must be sold in order
to break even

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