Problema Solution

ABC Sporting Goods company produces baseball gloves.their fixed monthly cost is $8000 with a per glove cost of $5. XYZ Sporting Goods also produces baseball gloves their fixed monthly cost is $10000 with a per glove cost of $3. Find the value of x ,the number of gloves produced monthly,so that the total monthly production cost is the same for both companies

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let 'x' represent the number of gloves produced


for ABC Sporting Goods, we have monthly costs of:

5x + 8000


for XYZ Sporting Goods, we have monthly costs of:

3x + 10000


we want to solve for 'x' when the monthly costs are equal:

5x+8000 = 3x+10000

2x = 2000

x = 1000


the costs is the same when both companies produce 1,000 gloves