Question

a beauty salon buys bottles of styling gel for $4.50 per bottle and marks up the price by 40%. for what price does the salon sell each bottle?

Answer 1

what would you say is 40% of 4.50?

Answer 2

a percent is a way to express a division by 100, so

4.50/100 = 1% ; then 40 of those 1%s is 40(4.50/100)

Answer 3

since it is marke UP; add that amount to the original price

Answer 4

10% is really easy to find, it is what you get when you move the decimal one place to make a smaller number ($.45). 4 times that 10% value (4*$.45) is 40%.

Answer 5

so whats the answer