The school band sells carnations on valentines day for $2 each. he buys the carnations from a florist for $0.50 each, plus a $16 delivery charge. when will the cost of the carnations be equal to the revenue from selling them? how many carnations does he need to sell to reach this point?

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step-by-step explanation:

if the four friends split the cost, p, of the pizza evenly, then each friend pays one-fourth of the cost of the pizza.

the expression is   or  

step-by-step explanation:

we have

using a graphing tool

see the attached figure

this is a quadratic equation (vertical parabola) open up

the vertex is a > vertex

the domain of the function is all real > interval (-∞,∞)

the range of the function is the > [-6.125,∞)

the function has two x->   and

the function is increasing over the > (0.25,∞)

the function is decreasing over the > (-∞,0.25)