Hamburgers are on the menu tomorrow at a school cafeteria and the manager needs to decide how many to have ready for the lunch hour. Each hamburger costs the school $1.85 and is sold for $3.50. Leftover hamburgers have no monetary value. The manager expects demand tomorrow to be 100, 150, 200 or 250 hamburgers and would like to prepare one of these four quantities for lunchtime. If the manager prepares 150 hamburgers and the lunchtime demand is for 200 hamburgers, tomorrow's profit will be ________.
A)- $20.00
B)$247.50
C)$165.00
D)- $125.50

Question

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To calculate the profit, first determine the revenue from selling 150 hamburgers at $3.50 each, which is 150 * $3.50 = $525. Then, calculate the cost of preparing 150 hamburgers at $1.85 each, which is 150 * $1.85 = $277.50. The profit is the revenue minus the cost, so $525 - $277.50 = $247.50.

Hamburgers Are on the Menu Tomorrow at a School Cafeteria