Consumer Math: Laila is going to start up a cookie baking business over the summer to make some extra money. It costs her $2.45 in supplies to make a dozen cookies. She wants to markup the price by 150%.

Ukonn Ra asked Oct 17, 2023

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Ukonn Ra asked Oct 17, 2023

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$2.45 ------ 100%

x ------- 150%

in order to find the value of the price per dozen cookies we can do the next operations

$x=(150\cdot2.45)/(100)=3.675$

the price will be $3.68

Mamsoudi answered Oct 22, 2023

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