Question

An online retail store sold $160,000 worth of clothing this year. The goal for next year is to increase this sales volume by 15%. A. Write and solve an equation to find the amount of clothing, in dollars, the online store needs to sell in order to achieve the goal.
B. Describe another method for determining your answer to part A.
C. Suppose the owner of the online store predicts that the store will sell $240,000 of clothing next year. Describe how he owners prediction differs from the sales goal.

Answer 1

A. $160,000*1.00= sales from this you
$160,000*1.15= sales for next year (called x)
X=$184,000 in sales are needed for next year

 B. You could multiply using percentages (100% and 115%)

C. That would be more sales than he expected