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A store makes a profit of $25 on each watch it sells. What solution setwill represent how many watches the store must sell to make a profitof at least $375?US

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Here, the variable is the number of watches.

The profit on each watch it sells is, $25.

The least profit to be made is, $375.

Let x be the number of watches, Then we have, the total profit as,

[tex]25x[/tex]

This profit should be atleast 375, therefore, we have,

[tex]\begin{gathered} 25x\ge375 \\ \frac{25x}{25}\ge\frac{375}{25} \\ x\ge15 \end{gathered}[/tex]