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 200 hamburgers and the lunchtime demand is for 100 hamburgers, tomorrow's profit will be ________.
A)$247.50
B)- $20.00
C)- $125.50
D)$165.00

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If 200 hamburgers are prepared and only 100 are sold, the cost is 200 * $1.85 = $370. The revenue from selling 100 hamburgers is 100 * $3.50 = $350. The profit is $350 - $370 = -$20.00.

Hamburgers Are on the Menu Tomorrow at a School Cafeteria