document.write( "Question 1180987: A woman bought 130kg of tomatoes for ghc 5.20. she sold half of them at a profit of 30%. The rest of the tomatoes began to go bad, she then reduced the selling price per kg by 12%.
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document.write( "1. Calculate the new selling price per kg.
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document.write( "2. The percentage profit on the whole transaction if she threw away 5kg of bad tomatoes. \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #810821 by greenestamps(13200)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \n" ); document.write( "I don't want to spend a lot of time looking at this problem only to find out I'm using the wrong information. \n" ); document.write( "Please re-post, indicating whether the ghc 5.20 is the total cost of he 130kg of tomatoes or the cost PER kg of the tomatoes. \n" ); document.write( "(I don't know what nation's currency would be \"ghc\", but 130 kg of tomatoes for a TOTAL of ghc 5.20 would be a cost per kg of ghc 0.04. That sounds unlikely -- with a typical price for tomatoes, it would make 1 ghc equivalent to around $30-$50 US.) \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |