document.write( "Question 1116089: Sweets Bakery makes fat-free cookies that cost $1.70 each to prepare. Sweets expects 20% of the cookies to be imperfect. Sweets wants a 40% markup on cost and produces 150 cookies. Assume that Sweets can sell the broken cookies for $1.60 each. What should Sweets charge for each cookie? \n" ); document.write( "
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Sweets Bakery makes fat-free cookies that cost $1.70 each to prepare. Sweets expects 20% of the cookies to be imperfect. Sweets wants a 40% markup on cost and produces 150 cookies. Assume that Sweets can sell the broken cookies for $1.60 each. What should Sweets charge for each cookie?
\n" ); document.write( "Equations::
\n" ); document.write( "p + i = 150 cookies
\n" ); document.write( "p = 0.8*150 = 120 perfect cookies
\n" ); document.write( "i = 0.2 150 = 30 imperfect cookies
\n" ); document.write( "cost = 1.7*170 = $289
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\n" ); document.write( "Let \"x\" be the cost of each perfect cookie
\n" ); document.write( "revenue:: 120x + 30*1.6 = 1.4*289
\n" ); document.write( "120x + 48 = 404.6
\n" ); document.write( "120x = 356.6
\n" ); document.write( "x = $2.97
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