a car dealer valued a car used as a trade-in at $2,180.He then offered it for sale for $4,033.What percent of the trade-in value is the selling price ?

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anonymous · Answer

2180/4033 = 0.541 = 54.1%
So the trade in value is  54.1% of the selling price

anonymous · Answer

nah its 185%

anonymous · Answer

no @littlemiss is not write i got it wrong the answer is 185%

anonymous · Answer

ok a grammer error then just try doing 4033/2180 to give you 1.85 times that by 100 to get 185.

we were trying to work out what percentage of the selling price was the initial price

whereas 185% is how much more the car dealer sold the car for than when he bought it

anonymous · Answer

yes