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Angela is making cookies for a bake sale. She expects each batch of her cookies to sell for $40. It costs her $10 to make one batch of cookies, and $10 for each additional batch. Which of the following represents the amount of profit she expects to make for c batches of cookies?
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- 00:03
Fat shamed one too many times Angela is participating in
- 00:07
a bake sale It's her screw you to the rest
- 00:10
of the world and angela we heart you We feel
- 00:12
you were on your side Just say bad cookies to
- 00:14
sell for forty bucks because of ingredients make one batch
Full Transcript
- 00:16
of cookies is ten bucks into the following formula represent
- 00:18
the amount of profit at least ongoing operations Profits you
- 00:19
make foresee batches of cookies Right So she's making cc
- 00:25
is the number of batches she's making at forty bucks
- 00:28
each in sales assuming she sells out one hundred percent
- 00:31
Right Okay Well so let's Think about this Every batch
- 00:34
of cookies gets angela forty bucks in revenue So the
- 00:37
amount of money made per batch at least revenues collected
- 00:41
per batch assuming a hundred percent sell through is forty
- 00:44
times See Alright Her expenses though are ten bucks So
- 00:49
the question is asking for profit though right revenues minus
- 00:54
expenses is profit will Forty is the revenue and ten
- 00:58
is thie expenses So thirty is the contribution margin there
- 01:02
So thirty is the contribution of profits per batch right
- 01:07
Would be forty times c and then subtract ten times
- 01:10
See So you just get thirty See right there That
- 01:14
choice there yet eh That's got to be it Angela
- 01:16
makes thirty see profit for you know see batches of
- 01:20
cookies and well all the others are just wrong Angela
- 01:23
you don't worry about what anyone else says about you
- 01:25
You do you and come to our party way want 00:01:28.291 --> [endTime] you sit next to us
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