A 30-second commercial during this year’s Super Bowl costs $4.5 million.

Question

B) Doritos is running 2 thirty-second commercials. A 16-ounce party-size bag of Doritos costs $3.98. If after paying the production costs of making and packaging this snack the company earns $1.80 profit per bag, how many bags must be sold to make back the money spent on their Super Bowl commercials? Explain how you solved this problem.

Answer 1

(2 * 4,500,000) / 1.8 = ?

Answer 2

5000000

Answer 3

Right

5 million bags