The Lakewood baseball team is selling T-shirts for a fundraiser. The shirts cost $100 for the printing design and set up plus $10 per shirt. The team is going to sell the shirts for 15 each. How many shirts do they need to sell to break even
In order to break even, the total revenue from selling shirts must equal the total cost of printing plus the cost per shirt.
Let x be the number of shirts to sell to break even.
Total cost = $100 + $10x
Total revenue = $15x
Setting the two equal and solving for x:
$100 + $10x = $15x
$100 = $5x
x = 20
Therefore, the team needs to sell at least 20 shirts to break even.