Prob 2) You have decided to open a taco restaurant and the rent on the building

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Prob 2) You have decided to open a taco restaurant and the rent on the building is $3,000 per month. You make two tacos: chicken and beef and sell them both at $2.95 each. You sell twice as many beef as you do chicken on any given month. Using the per taco costs below, how many beef and chicken tacos do you have to sell to pay the rent? 4 5 Ingredient 6 Tortilla 7 Beef 8 Chicken 0.15 1.25 0.75 10 Cost of one beef taco: 11 Cost of one chicken taco: 12 2.95 2.95 Number of tacos needed to 13 14 15 16 17 18 pay rent: beef: chicken: Prob1 Prob2 Prob3 Prob4 Prob5

Explanation / Answer

Let x be beef tacos sold in a month

sold in a month

x= 2y (given)

Profit from Beef Taco = 2.95-(1.25+0.15) = 1.55

Profit from Chicken Taco = 2.95-(0.75+0.15) = 2.05

Total profit should be equal to Rent = 3,000

Total Profit = 1.55*x +   2.05*y    = 3,000

                  1.55(2y) + 2.05*y   = 3,000

                  3.1 y + 2.05y = 3000

                 5.15y = 3000

                   y = 582.52 = 583 Chicken Tacos

                   x = 1165.04 = 1165 Beef Tacos

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