Tamari is selling popcorn for three dollars a bag. He already has $40 and his goal is to earn $85 turtle use a rhythmic to determine how many bags he needs to sell to make his goal.

Answer 1

To determine the number of bags Tamari needs to sell to reach his goal of $85, we can use the equation:

Total sales = money already earned + money needed to reach the goal.

Total sales = $40 + $85 = $125

Now, we need to find out how many bags Tamari needs to sell to reach $125.

Since each bag is sold for $3, we can use the equation:

Total sales = number of bags sold × price per bag.

$125 = number of bags sold × $3

Dividing both sides of the equation by $3, we get:

number of bags sold = $125 / $3 = 41 and 2/3 bags.

However, Tamari cannot sell two-thirds of a bag, so he would need to sell the next highest whole number of bags to reach his goal.

Tamari needs to sell 42 bags of popcorn to make his goal of $85.