Problema Solution

A magazine publisher has an up front cost of $1000 to produce an issue plus an additional $1.50 per magazine printed. If they need the average cost per issue to be less than $2.75, what amount of issues should they print in a single run?

Answer provided by our tutors

let 'x' represent the number of magazine issues


the cost equation would be an inequality:

1000 + 1.5x < 2.75x


...solving for 'x':

x > 800


so more than 800 issues must be printed in a single run