The Spanish Club at Santa Fe Middle School wants to sell mini quiches to raise money for a field trip. The culinary department at their school will make the quiches for $30 plus $0.50 per quiche for the ingredients. The Spanish Club wants to sell each quiche for $2. How many quiches will they need to sell in order to break even?(1 point)

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Responses

12 quiches
12 quiches

20 quiches
20 quiches

45 quiches
45 quiches

75 quiches

Answer 1

The total cost per quiche is $30 + $0.50 = $30.50.

To break even, the Spanish Club will need to sell enough quiches to cover the total cost.

Let's denote the number of quiches they need to sell as x.

So the total cost will be $30 + $0.50x.

The revenue from selling x quiches will be $2x.

To break even, the cost must equal the revenue:
$30 + $0.50x = $2x

Subtracting $0.50x from both sides gives:
$30 = $1.50x

Dividing both sides by $1.50 gives:
20 = x

Therefore, they will need to sell 20 quiches in order to break even.

So the correct answer is: 20 quiches.