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A company makes Poppy Lapel Pins. Each of them costs £1.10 to make.In October it made 1000 lapel pins.35% of them are given to charities.The rest are sold in two formats: 60% of them at £3.00 each 40% of them at £5.00 for 2Assuming that all the lapel pins will be sold by the end of November,work out the percentage profit the company should make.Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

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Explanation:

The cost to make each Poppy Lapel Pin is £1.10, and the company made 1000 of them, so the total cost of production is:

Total cost = Cost per unit x Number of units

Total cost = £1.10 x 1000

Total cost = £1,100

35% of the lapel pins are given to charity, which means the remaining 65% are sold. This is 650 lapel pins that are sold.

60% of the sold lapel pins are sold at £3.00 each, which means the company sells 390 lapel pins at £3.00 each. This results in sales revenue of:

Revenue from £3.00 lapel pins = Number of £3.00 lapel pins sold x Price per lapel pin

Revenue from £3.00 lapel pins = 390 x £3.00

Revenue from £3.00 lapel pins = £1,170

40% of the sold lapel pins are sold at £5.00 for 2, which means the company sells 260 sets of lapel pins. Each set contains 2 lapel pins, so the company sells 520 lapel pins at £2.50 each. This results in sales revenue of:

Revenue from £5.00 for 2 lapel pins = Number of sets sold x Price per set

Revenue from £5.00 for 2 lapel pins = 260 x £5.00

Revenue from £5.00 for 2 lapel pins = £1,300

The total revenue is:

Total revenue = Revenue from £3.00 lapel pins + Revenue from £5.00 for 2 lapel pins

Total revenue = £1,170 + £1,300

Total revenue = £2,470

The profit is the difference between the revenue and the cost of production, which is:

Profit = Total revenue - Total cost

Profit = £2,470 - £1,100

Profit = £1,370

The percentage profit is calculated as:

Percentage profit = (Profit ÷ Total cost) x 100%

Percentage profit = (£1,370 ÷ £1,100) x 100%

Percentage profit = 124.55%

Therefore, the company should make a 124.6% profit.

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