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Marquise sold shirts to raise money for school.

He paid $5.85 to make each shirt and sold each shirt at a marked up price.
He made a total profit of $1,834.
What is the approximate percent Marquise marked up the cost of each shirt to make his total profit? Show your work.

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User Tarun Maganti
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Answer:

63.58% markup.

Explanation:

5.38 x 200 = 1166

(1166 ÷ 1834) x 100% = 63.58.

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