Question

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Ms. Parker charges $29.95 for a bouquet of one dozen roses. Last year, she paid her supplier $4.50- per dozen roses. This year, she paid $3.25 more per dozen. How much less profit did she make this year on 20 dozen bouquets?

Answer 1

One step at a time:

How much of a profit did she make last year on a dozen roses?

Answer 2

Are you there?

Answer 3

total profit last year = 29.95-4.5
total profit this year = 29.95-(4.5+3.25)
by subtracting you get the answer for a dozen
multiplying by 20 you get the answer

Answer 4

wait sorry it took so look, qwe,qwe uhm it was the connection.. wait i still don't get it. the question is asking, 'how much less profit did she make this year on 20 dozen bouqets?'

Answer 5

Right. I read the same thing.

So you have to figure out how much profit she made last year on 1 dozen.
Then you have to figure out how much profit she made this year on 1 dozen.
The difference between them is how much less she made this year than last year on 1 dozen.
Multiply that by 20 and you have your answer.

Answer 6

its $65
or 12.77% less profit

Answer 7

oh so it's simple. you just do 3.25 times 20 and you get 65

Answer 8

Yes!! :-)

Answer 9

absolutely

Answer 10

oh i get it now. thank you BOTh. i really wish i could award two medals, but since i cannot, i will fan one of you and give a medal to the other at random

Answer 11

No problem!

Answer 12

would you be willing to help me on two more of theses problems?