A merchant purchased a jacket for $60 and then determined a selling price that equaled the purchase price of the jacket plus a markup that was 25 percent of the selling price. During a sale, the merchant discounted the selling price by 20 percent and sold the jacket. What was the merchant's gross profit on this sale?

Store N gives a 50 percent discount on the list price of all its items and Store W gives a 60 percent discount on the list price of all its items. If the list price of the same item is 20 percent higher in Store W, what percent (more or less) of the selling price in Store N is the selling price of the item in Store W?

 A store bought 5 dozen lamps at $30 per dozen and sold them all at $15 per lamp.The profit on each lamp was what percent of its selling price?

A certain brand of house paint must be purchased either in quarts at $12 each or in gallons at $18 each. A painter needs a 3-gallon mixture of the paint consisting of 3 parts blue and 2 parts white. What is the least amount of money needed to purchase sufficient quantities of the two colors to make the mixture?

(4 quarts= 1 gallon)

The table above shows the percent of change from the previous month in Company X's sales for February through June of last year. A positive indicates that Company X's sales for that month increased from the sales for the previous month, and a negative percent indicates that Company X's sales for that month decreased from the sales for the previous month. For which month were the sales closest to the sales in January?

The annual stockholders' report for Corporation X stated that profits were up 10 percent over the previous year, although profits as a percent of sales were down 10 percent. Total sales for that year were approximately what percent of sales for the previous year?

When a certain stretch of highway was rebuilt and straightened, the distance along stretch was decreased by 20 percent and the speed limit was increased by 25 percent. By what percent was the driving time along this stretch reduced for a person who always drives at the speed limit?

A circular rim 28 inches in diameter rotates the same number of inches per second as a circular rim 35 inches in diameter. If the smaller rim makes x revolutions per second, how many revolutions per minute does the larger rim make in terms of x?

In the previous figure, three squares and a triangle have areas of A, B, C, and X as shown. If A=144. B=81 and C=225 then X=

The figure above shows 2 circles. The larger circle has center A, radius R cm, and is inscribed in a square. The smaller circle has center C, radius r cm, and is tangent to the larg circle at point B and to the square at points D and F. If points A, B, C, and E are collinear,which of the following is equal to R/r?