SOLUTION: Pizzeria Profits!
There are two businesses that have opened in Corona. Let’s compare them and see which
business makes a greater profit.
For the purpose of this project, a m
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Question 1040293: Pizzeria Profits!
There are two businesses that have opened in Corona. Let’s compare them and see which
business makes a greater profit.
For the purpose of this project, a month always has four weeks.
Frank’s Pizzeria Kelly’s Pizzeria
Amount Spent on Supplies:
$759.67
Amount Spent Paying Employees:
$2300.50 per month
Amount Earned Selling Pizza:
Week 1: $1500
Week 2: $1200
Week 3: $800
Week 4: $1420
Amount Spent on Supplies:
$840.65 per week
Amount Spent Paying Employees:
Once supplies are paid for, Kelly’s Pizzeria
pays employees ⅞ of the amount earned
for the month.
Amount Earned Selling Pizza:
Week 1: $1740.25
Week 2: $1490.17
Week 3: $2807.13
Week 4: $650.35
Use the information from above to answer the following questions. Show your work in the space
below each question.
A) How much money do the employees from Frank’s Pizzeria earn per week? How much
money do the employees from Kelly’s Pizzeria earn by the end of the month?
Frank’s Pizzeria Kelly’s Pizzeria
B) By the end of the fourth week there was either a net loss or net gain for each business.
Determine the net loss or gain for each business that occurred by the end of the fourth
week. Which business had a net loss? Justify your response.
C) Use your response from Question B to answer this question. How much more money
should the business(es) have made in order to break even? Show your work.
Frank’s Pizzeria Kelly’s Pizzeria
D) Frank’s Pizzeria has a champion pizza eater named Sandy who can eat 6 ½ slices in 2
minutes. Kelly’s Pizzeria has a champion pizza eater named James who can eat 3 slices in
1½ minutes. Who can eat more pizza in 1 minute?
Use the number line to show the difference between the amounts of pizza eaten by the two
competitors in one minute.
E) What fraction of the total sales for four weeks is used to pay for supplies for each business?
Write this amount also in decimal and percent form.
F) Amanda would like to own Frank’s Pizzeria. If Amanda only purchases businesses that
earn a profit, would you agree or disagree with her decision? Explain your reasoning and
include details of the business’ net gain or loss to support your response. Answer by ikleyn(52786) (Show Source):
