SOLUTION: A restaurant has fixed costs of $148.75 per day and an average unit cost of $5.75 for each meal served. If a typical meal costs $7, how many customers must eat at the restaurant ea

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Question 1160593: A restaurant has fixed costs of $148.75 per day and an average unit cost of $5.75 for each meal served. If a typical meal costs $7, how many customers must eat at the restaurant each day for the owner to break even?

Answer by ikleyn(52770) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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How the problem is worded, it makes me scared.

Probably, you want to say that the restaurant buys the meal outside (from the source) at the buying price of $5.75
and sales to the customers at $7.00. 

If so, then the equation is


    7.00x = 148.75 + 5.75x.


The solution is


    x = 148.75%2F%287.00-5.75%29 = 119 meals.     ANSWER

Solved.

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Who is the "problems composer" on your side ?

He (or she) really needs a helper, who will edit after him (or her) . . .