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A 6% commission |
2011-10-15 |
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From Tamara: if you earned a gross wage of $810, which includes a salary of $90 and a 6% commission how much is the net sales? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Sales as a function of advertising |
2010-12-08 |
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From Adori: The sales S(in thousands if units) of a product after x hundred dollars is spent on advertising is given by S=10(1-e^kx). Find S as a function of x if 2500 units are sold when $500 is spent on advertising. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Sales taxes in Quebec |
2010-04-28 |
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From carole: I work at a company where we use transport companies and we often get credits
on their invoices. I need to know how to subtract the sales taxes from these credit amounts.
(5% TPS and 7.5% TVQ).
Is the equation: Amount / 1.05 = then this amount / by 1.075=? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A 25% discount |
2010-03-29 |
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From Susan: If something costs 1.00/per lb. and that price includes a 25% discount. How do you calculate what the price was before the discount? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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How many CDs and videos did the store sell? |
2010-03-01 |
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From dawn: A used book store started selling CDs and videos. In the first week,the store sold 40 used CDs and videos,at 4.00
per CD and 6.00 per video.The sales for both CDs and videos totaled 180.00 she wrote a system of equations to represent the situation.Then she graph the system of equations
thanks- Dawn Answered by Tyler Wood. |
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A 30% markup and a 20% sale |
2010-01-25 |
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From stephanie: A car is marked up 30% from its wholesale price.During a sale the retail price is reduced by 20% .What percent higher is the sale price from the wholesale price. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Gross sales |
2007-11-30 |
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From tom: here is my question: trying to determine what gross sales were.
I have.....Gross sales - (gross X .0675) = 2,245,009 Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Calculating sales taxes |
2007-07-11 |
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From Tonya: Hi, Im having trouble calculating GST and PST
I know that in this province, GST is 6% and PST is 7%, I have a total of $275, and GST is 0.06, and PST is 0.07, so do I add those two and multiply them by the total, $275? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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How many sales does she need? |
2007-05-07 |
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From Jimi: The new businessperson hopes to earn $50,000 per year. The profit percentage for this type of business is typically 10%. How much must sales be? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Three people go to a store where there is a sale |
2006-05-30 |
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From Geocee: Three people go to a store where there is a sale. One person buys two shirts, one pair of pants and one sweater. The second person buys one shirt, two pairs of pants and two sweaters. The third person buys three shirts and four pairs of pants. Find the price of each item if the first person spent $155 and the second and third person spent $235 each. Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Price percentages |
2006-04-13 |
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From Kristine: An item that is no longer on sale at "25% off" receives a price tag that is 33 1/3% more than the sale price. Has the item price been restored to its original price? Why or Why not? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Reverse pecentage |
2005-03-01 |
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From Nathan: Question for you. If I have spent $10.00, what is the mathamatical equation to
figure out what the G.S.T (7%) was?
Also if I were to spend $80.00 on a hotel, and I would like to know how much
G.S.T (7%) and how much provincial tax (6%) I spent how would I go about this.
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Sales before tax |
2005-02-09 |
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From Lynda: I know my total sales for the month, which includes sales tax. How do I get to the sales dollars before the sales tax? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A travelling salesman |
2004-09-09 |
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From Liz: A salesman traveled due west from city A to city B. The distance he traveled, that is the ditance from A to B, was X miles. He returned from B to A and found that he had traveled half the distance, X/2 miles. How can that be? Answered by Chris Fisher and Penny Nom. |
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An onsale DVD player |
2003-07-09 |
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From Kim: I have a DVD player with a regular selling price of $175 and percentage of discount is 10 percent. How to solve for discount amount and sale price? Also, when you figure out the sale price how to figure out commission amount when percentage of commission is 5 percent? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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pst and gst |
2003-06-24 |
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From Robin: I need to find an easy solution to remembering how to calculated the gst and pst once I have the total amount. ex: my total is $154.40, I have to find the gst and then the pst. I live in bc so the taxes are 7% for gst and 7.5% for pst. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A sale price |
2002-10-15 |
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From Chester: A jacket is on sale for 32% off. Find the original if the sale price is $89.00 Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A sale on eggs |
2002-01-17 |
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From A student: A store had a sale on eggs, selling 13 eggs for the usual price of a dozen eggs. As a result, the price of the eggs was reduced by 4 cents a dozen. What is the original price for a dozen eggs? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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The ages of three daughters |
2000-10-25 |
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From Andrea: An encyclopedia saleman call at a home. The woman who answers the door says she will buy something from him if he can give the ages of her three children. The first clue, she says, is the three ages multiplied together equal 36. he responds that he needs more infomration, so she says that the threee ages add up to the number of the bus that passed by (the prof did not give us this number) He thinks for a while and says he needs one more clue. So she says, my youngest child has red hair, and he is able to answer and make the sale. what are the ages of the three children? (hint: the salesman needed all three clues to get the answer). Answered by Penny Nom. |
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