SOLUTION: A college bookstore marks up the price that it pays the publisher for a book by 40% If the selling price of a book is $62.00 how much did the bookstore pay for this book?

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Question 1186405: A college bookstore marks up the price that it pays the publisher for a book by 40% If the selling price of a book is $62.00 how much did the bookstore pay for this book?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source):
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A college bookstore marks up the price that it pays the publisher for a book by 40% If the selling price
of a book is $62.00 how much did the bookstore pay for this book?
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If x is the price the bookstore pays to the publisher, then they mark up the book price (x + 0.4x) dollars, which is the same as 1.4x dollars. So, 1.4x = 62 dollars, and you find x = = 44.28571429 dollars = 44.28 dollars.

Solved.

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I am more than 100% sure that the number 62 dollars in your post is a MISTAKE -
it is why the answer is so ugly.

63 dollars in the input would give much better rounded answer.

SOLUTION: A college bookstore marks up the price that it pays the publisher for a book by 40% If the selling price of a book is $62.00 how much did the bookstore pay for this​ book?

SOLUTION: A college bookstore marks up the price that it pays the publisher for a book by 40% If the selling price of a book is $62.00 how much did the bookstore pay for this book?