Question

A clothing store buys shorts from the manufacturer .The store then marks up the price by 6%. Write an expression as a sum to represent the new price if the original price of short was $12.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Let x represent the new price of the shorts.

The original price of the shorts is given as $12. The store then marks up the price by 6%. This means that the amount by which the original price was marked up would be

6/100 × 12 × 0.06 × 12 = $0.72

The new price of the short would be the sum of the original price and the amount by which it was marked up. It becomes

x = 12 + 0.72