To raise money, a school is selling ice-pops for $1.50. It costs 90 cents to make each pop, and the money from the pops will be used to buy pencils, which cost $1.80 each. How many pops must be sold to buy 100 pencils?
Reason slowly and give your answer.
300
To buy 100 pencils the school needs 100 * $1.

80 = $180.

00.

Each ice pop sells for $1.

50 but costs $.

90 to make, for a net profit of $1.

50 - $.

90 = $.

60.

So in order to raise $180.

00, the school will need to sell $180.

00 / $.

60 per ice - pop = 300 ice - pops.

.

So, the answer is 300