Question

zara owns a hairdressing salon.she buys a pack of 60 bottles of shampoo from warehouse for $240.she plans to sell the bottles of shampoo to her customers for $5.50 each. calculate the percentage profit zara makes on each bottle she sells for $5.50​

Answer 1

37.5% per bottle.

Explanation:

The price she paid for the shampoo was 240$ for 60 bottles, so the price per bottle is 240/60 = 4 $. Now, she sells each bottle in 5.50$ so the profit per bottle is 5.50-4 = 1.50$. The percentage is calculate with a rule of three:

`(4)/(1.50)` =
`(100)/(x)`

where 100 y 100% and x is the percentage we are searching for. So,

x =
`(1.50*100)/(4)`

x = 37.5%.