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A bakery advertised a bag of cookies today for $3.99. Why did the bakery set the price at $3.99 instead of $4.00?

a The bakery needs to get rid of old cookies.
b The bakery wants to improve the reviews on that brand.
c Our brains tend to notice the first digit first.
d We may pay an extra penny at the register.

User Mcritz
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The answer is D because at the register they charge you an extra penny to even out the number

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User Micha Schwab
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Answer:

C.

Explanation:

If you think about it, it makes a little bit of sense. You pay $3.99 for the bag of cookies when the initial price was $4. To you, it sounds cheaper. But you're technically paying the same amount of cash as you would for the previous amount of cookies, as nobody in America keeps 99 cents in their pockets at all times, and 99 cents obviously rounds up to a dollar, so it's technically the same price as before. Overall, this would be essentially just a cheap marketing technique that they're using to get more money out of a larger group of people. If they're trying to get rid of old cookies, they wouldn't lower the price by just a cent, lowering the price by just a cent in order to improve the reviews might as well do the opposite, and paying an extra cent doesn't make much of a difference considering the old price. So thus the answer is C.

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