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Mia B. also had a lawn mowing business last spring.
Her weekly earnings from mowing lawns was $475 per
g week. She bought a new riding mower from the
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Simplicity Tractor place in Colchester for $2,100
which means her business began "in the red or minus"
$2,100.
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The equation for Mia's Lawn Business is
y = 475x 2,100 where x represents the number of
weeks since her business began and y represents her net
profit. Use the equation to calculate how many weeks
she had been in business when her net profit was $275.
y=475x 2,100