SOLUTION: The horse rescue's only means of support is fundraising and donations. In a given month the rescue will hold several fund raisers at restaruants that will donate 20% of the food

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Question 619158: The horse rescue's only means of support is fundraising and donations. In a given month the rescue will hold several fund raisers at restaruants that will donate 20% of the food sales on a given evening to the rescue.
If we have 17 horses in a given month how much would the restaurants have to make in sales for us to break even

Answer by dragonwalker(73) About Me  (Show Source):
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You will need to give how much it costs to keep each horse in order to work this out. But as only 20% is given, this represents 20/100 (i.e. 1/5) of the intake of the restaurant, so the restaurant would have to make 5 times as much as that needed by the horse rescue.