Let's call the store value as s and the wholesale price as w. A store prices tapes by raising the wholesale price 50%(0.5 in decimals) and adding 25 cents, writing this as an equation, we have

If we invert the equation we're going to find the the wholesale price as a function of the store price.

Now, to find the wholesale price if the sales price is $1.99, we just need to evaluate s = 1.99 on the function we created.

The wholesale price is $1.16.
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You didn’t tell us how you want to figure it out
Since you are just converting the minutes to hours, you can disregard the 15 miles
To change
36 minutes
60 minutes
36/60
3/5
.6 hours
0.6 hours
159
10 squared is 100
Do the 5+3 next to get 8 then square the 8 to get 64
That leaves you with 100+64-5=159