Dollar Dress Shop’s inventory at cost on January 1 was $82,800. Its retail value was $87,500. During the year, Dollar purchased
additional merchandise at a cost of $300,000 with a retail value of $325,000. The net sales at retail for the year were $295,000. Calculate Dollar’s inventory at cost by the retail method. (Round the cost ratio to the nearest whole percent.)
Because CD corresponds to BC, the scale factor from triangle ABC to triangle CDE, is 7/8. Now, DE corresponds to AB, so to get DE, we must multiply the value of AB by 7/8. 6 times 7/8 is 5.25, and rounding to the nearest tenth of a foot, the value of DE is 5.3.