Question

The wholesale price for a desk is $192 a certain furniture store marks up the wholesale price by 17% find the price of the desk in the furniture store round to the nearest cent as necessary

Answer 1

Given:

The wholesale price for a desk is $192.

The wholesale price marks up by 17%.

`\begin{gathered} 17\text{ \% of 192} \\ (17)/(100)*192=32.64 \end{gathered}`

The new price will be,

`192+32.64=224.64`

Answer: $224.64