Question

The wholesale price for a shirt is $5.50. A certain department store marks up the wholesale price by 40%. Find the price of the shirt in the department store.

Answer 1

Answer:

$7.7

Step-by-step explanation:

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you can solve this by using a simple rule of three.

Step 1

define

if the wholesale price for a shirt is $5.50,it is 100 percent

$5.50⇔100%

the new price(x) is 40% more than the original, it means 140%

x  ⇔ 140%

the relation is

$\frac{5.5}{100}= \frac{x}{140}$

Step 2

solve for x(isolate x)

$\frac{5.5}{100}= \frac{x}{140}\\x=\frac{5.5*140}{100}\\x=7.7$

the price of the shirt in the department store is $7.7

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