Question 1174359: To own and operate a home printer, it costs $100 for the printer and an additional $0.05 per page for ink. To print out pages at an office store, it costs $0.25 per page. Let p represent number of pages.
If the equation 100 + 0.05p = 0.25p represents this situation and the solution to the equation is p = 500, what does the solution mean?
Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! the left side is the cost to the owner doing it all at home, the $100 printer and the variable cost per page.
the right side is the cost to to the owner taking it to the store, the $0.25 is the variable cost per page.
When they are equal is the break even point for how many pages need to be printed to make the printer worthwhile.
that is 0.20p=100 or p=500 pages need to be printed to pay for the printer and ink.
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