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Exercise 4 Page 88

Divide 600 by 2.75.

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To find out how many magazines we need to sell to raise enough money, we need to set up an equation. We can use T for total, c for the cost of a magazine, and n for the number of magazines. T = cn Now, we know T=600 and c=2.75. Let's substitute and solve.
T = cn
600 = 2.75n
218.181818... = n
n=218.181818...
Since we can only buy a whole number of magazines, we need to round up in order to make sure we get at least $600. Therefore, they need to sell 219 magazines.