Question

Cody's Seafood House purchases

shrimp for $5.00 per pound. If the
shrimp is marked up 65% how much,
will guests pay for 2 pounds of
shrimp ?

Answer 1

5×65%=3.25
3.25+5=8.25
8.25×2=16.5

Therefore, your answer is "The guests will pay $16.50 for 2 pounds of shrimp".

Answer 2

Try this

Explanation:

So what you have to do is turn 65% into a decimal. 65% as a decimal is 0.65.

Then what you want to do is divide 5.00 and 0.65 and see what you get.