Answer:
The answer is $3000.
Step-by-step explanation:
The men's clothing buyer had a group of 50 jackets priced at $250 each.
Total price of jackets = dollars
The buyer reduced the price of the jackets in that group to $200 and 40 jackets were sold.
So, the price for selling 40 jackets is = dollars
Remaining jackets =
These were sold at $150 each, totaling to = dollars
So, overall money earned by reducing prices both time = dollars
And the markdown in dollars = (original price before reducing) minus (educed total price)
= dollars
So, the answer is $3000.