The Spanish club at Santa Fe high school wants to sell mini quiches to raise money for field trip. The culinary department at their school will make the quiches for $30 plus plus $.50 per quiche for the ingredients. The Spanish club wants to sell each quiche for two dollars. How many quiches will they need to sell in order to break even
The total cost to make one quiche is $30 + $0.50 = $30.50
The Spanish club will sell each quiche for $2.
To break even, they need to cover the cost of making the quiches, so they will need to sell enough quiches to cover the total cost.
Let's represent the number of quiches they need to sell to break even as x.
Total revenue = Total cost
$2 * x = $30.50 * x
2x = 30.50x
x = 30.50 / 2
x = 15.25
Since you can't sell a fraction of a quiche, the Spanish club will need to sell at least 16 quiches to break even.