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A fashion shop sells sunglasses for $50 per pair. The shop sells 15 pairs of sunglasses every day. If m represents the shop's revenue from sunglass sales over a certain period of time, which of the following equations can be used to calculate the shop's revenue after d days?
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Okay shmoop er's Last math question in this section of
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our little less eighteen math shop Ah fashion shop sells
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sunglasses for fifty bucks a pair Shop sells fifteen pairs
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of sunglasses every day thinking about fifteen hundred fifty dollars
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say opening it and represents the shots of revenue from
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sunglass sales over a certain period Time like having sex
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with equations can use the calculator shots of revenue after
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d days These sunglasses are pretty expensive so they better
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look super cool in the equation and this problem is
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asking for relates to the amount of money em the
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store makes in revenue and then the number of days
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d that passed by So we need a number with
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units of dollars per day multiplied it costs with sunglasses
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by the number of sales per day So if we've
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got fifteen glasses times fifty bucks yeah that's the right
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answer fifteen airs and glasses every day so that seven
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hundred fifty dollars in revenue per day That's What store
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gets in revenue So m equals seven fifty times the
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number of days or just seven fifty right So the
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answer Just be pretty easy That may seem like a
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lot of money but maybe the store's ran seven hundred
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forty nine dollars a day in the shop just breaking
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even Who knows We don't care about their operating expenses
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in this question because well the test makers are just 00:01:08.709 --> [endTime] asking about revenues there Thank goodness
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