Question

Tyler is trying to sell his baseball bat. If he sells it for 371, he gains 6%. how much should he sell it for if he wishes to gain 8%?

Answer 1

`\boxed{378}`

Explanation:

We are given that if he sells a baseball bat for $371 dollars, he will gain 6% from when he paid to get the baseball bat. This means that if we set
`x` to be the price he paid for, if we add 6% of
`x` to that, we should get $371. We can write the equation
`x+(6)/(100)x=371`. Solving for x yields
`x=350.` However, we are looking for when he gains 8%, so we add 8% for 350 onto 350, which means that we are just simplifying
`350+(8)/(100)\cdot350`, which will get us
`\boxed{378}`