SOLUTION: if a refrigerator costs $880 wholesale, what is the selling price if the store marks it up by 15%?

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Question 977395: if a refrigerator costs $880 wholesale, what is the selling price if the store marks it up by 15%?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if a refrigerator costs $880 wholesale, what is the selling price if the store
marks it up by 15%?
When they mark it up 15% its selling price will then be 115% of the wholesale
price.

115% of $880 is found by changing 115% to the decimal 1.15 and multiplying by 880,
and we get $1012.

Edwin