how many mugs were purchased
a retailer spent $48 to purchase a number of special mugs. Two of them were broken in the store, but by selling each of the remaining mugs for $3 above the original cost per mug, she made a total profit of $22.
Construct an equation that will allow us to solve for the number of mugs, denoted by n, that were originally purchased.
Rewrite equation in the standard form of a quadratic equation:
1. How many mugs were purchased?
2. What was the original cost per mug?
3. What profit was made on each mug?
4. When solving a quadratic equation,there are normally two solutions. Why were you able to discard one of the solutions in this case?
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