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?
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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:





Solve for . Add to 150.

John

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