Aguy walks in the store and steals 100 without the owners knowledge. he comes back 5 minutes later and buys 70 dollars worth of goods with the 100 dollar bill. the owner gives him back 30 in change

Assuming the question is how much did he lose, it's $100. If we assume he started with $500 in his register, the original $100 stolen lowers it down to $400. The guy buying $70 worth of stuff puts it back to $470 in the register, but now with $70 less merchandise, so he lost $30 in cash and $70 in merchandise.

First, think of what you know. you know that the number t the end of the equation will need to be subtracted because it is the money he lost from buying the lawn mower. and your first two weeks have negative profit, so that tells you that c and d are wrong. now you can plug any of the weeks into a and b to see which one works. i'll start with plugging week 1 into a.this isn't right because it says your answer for week one should be -90.so now we need to try the same thing with b.this one got you the right answer, (sometimes if you only check with one of the weeks multiple will work so you need to check with more of the weeks, but it worked out fine here)this means that b is the correct answer.let me know if you need more clarification. i hope this : )