The table at the bottom shows the annual profit ( in thousands of dollars) of a county fair from 2008 to 2012. What must the 2012 profit be (in hundreds of dollars) to break even over the five-year period?
Year Profit (thousands of dollars)
2008 2.5
2009 1.75
2010 -3.3
2011 -1.4
2012 ?
Would it be 2.95? It would be 2.95 If you are trying to get the profit back to 2.5, since you would add all the numbers together (subtract the negatives) and the answer would be .45 which you'd add to 2.5 to equal 2.95
