SOLUTION: A businessman buys 1,440 dozen pens at $2.50 a dozen and then sells them at a price of 25 cents apiece. What is his total profit on the lot of pens?

Question 1101756: A businessman buys 1,440 dozen pens at $2.50 a dozen and then sells them at a price of 25 cents apiece. What is his total profit on the lot of pens?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
He buys pens
at
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is his cost
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is his profit

dollars is his profit
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check the math
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