Hand Painted Greeting Cards

Please help me? :( I don't understand word problems.

You are starting a business selling boxes of hand-painted greeting cards. To get started, you spend 26 on paint and paintbrushes that you need. You buy boxes of plain cards for $3.5 per box, paint the cards, and then sell them for $5 per box. How many boxes must you sell for your revenue to equal your expenses? What will your revenue and expenses equal when you break even?

Please help me! Thank you soo much.

expenses = 26 + 3.5x

revenue = 5x

26 + 3.5x = 5x

solve for x, the number of boxes

2009-09-23 16:11:58 by Jacey

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"You are starting a business selling boxes of hand-painted greeting cards. To get started, you spend $36 on paint and paintbrushes that you need. You buy boxes of plain cards for $3.50 per box, paint the cards, and then sell them for $5.00 per box. How many boxes must you sell for your earnings to equal your expenses? What will your earnings and expenses equal when you break even?"

I just don't understand how to approach this problem!

Every box you sell earns you $1.50 toward paying your paint expenses (which were $36). How many $1.50's would you need to reach $36.00 ? Divide 36 by 1.50, and you get 24 boxes to break even.

Your total expenses at break-even point were the $36 for paint, plus 24 boxes (times 3.50 each). 36+24(3.50) = 36+84 = $120 expenses. To check it, 24 boxes times $5.00 each = $120 earnings.

2010-10-03 18:49:53 by tim j

Price: $14.49 $12.49

you are starting a business selling boxes of hand-painted greeting cards. to get started, you spend $36 on paint and paintbrushes that you need. you buy boxes of plain cards for $3.50 per box, paint the cards, and then sell them for $5 per box. how many boxes must you sell for your earnings to equal your expenses? what will your earning and expenses equal when you break even?

Let x = # boxes, p = earnings, and c = expenses.

"you spend $36 on paint and paintbrushes that you need. you buy boxes of plain cards for $3.50 per box" translates to c = 36 + 3.5x

"sell them for $5 per box" translates to p = 5x

"earnings to equal your expenses" translates to p = c, or 36 + 3.5x = 5x. Solve this equation.

36 + 3.5x = 5x
36 + 3.5x - 3.5x = 5x - 3.5x
36 = 1.5x
36/1.5 = 1.5x/1.5
x = 24

You must sell 24 boxes for your earnings to equal your expenses.

p = 5*24 = 120 and c = 36 + 3.5*24 = 36 + 84 = 120

Your earnings and expenses will both be $120 when you break even.

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2010-09-12 15:27:13 by i&lt;3yahoo

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I'm making hand painted greeting cards for my family and friends, I was wondering what kind of paint is best to use to give me a finished look?

Watercolors are excellent for this also on watercolor paper as greeting cards.

2009-08-30 17:10:14 by chocaholic

I'm planning to go to my first craft fair ever. I need some advice on how much inventory i should bring to the craft fair? This is what I'm planning to sell: handmade greeting cards, hand painted jewerly boxes, and hand made cell phone charms.

There's really no way to predict what will sell and what won't. You think something is "hot" and no one buys it, but when you make a few of something you didn't really like, they sell like hotcakes! LOL!!! It's just the way it goes.

What to do?
Make as many of everything as you can manage until the day of the fair. Sell all you can at the fair, and put the rest on Ebay, give it to your family and friends for the next few gift giving holidays, or save it for the next fair.

Ever heard of Esty?
Go to www.esty.com.
It's a website where you can buy and sell all things handmade. Might be an option for you to make good money with your leftovers, or even a small side job.
Couldn't hurt, right?

Good luck.

2009-05-30 01:15:08 by yikesikes!