Question

if the premium for same day shipping is 200%. what is the cost to ship 2200 lbs of goods from Dallas to Nashville using same day shipping? if the answer is d.$15,840 what is the appropriate formula to solve?

Answer 1

from Chicago to Atlanta is 700 miles, so in plain-vanilla shipping costs for that will be $240 per every 100 lbs.

if we're shipping 2,000 lbs, hmmm that's 2000/100 = 20, so 100 lbs 20 times, so our plain-vanillla cost will be 20 * 240 = 4800 bucks.

Now, we're Da Bomb, and hell, why not, let's ship it on a 3-5 day, but that has a Premium of an extra 20%, hmmm that means our cost using 3-5 days service is 4800 + 20%.

`\begin{array}c \cline{1-1} \textit{a\% of b}\\ \cline{1-1} \\ \left( \cfrac{a}{100} \right)\cdot b \\\\ \cline{1-1} \end{array}~\hspace{5em}\stackrel{\textit{20\% of 4800}}{\left( \cfrac{20}{100} \right)4800}\implies 960~\hfill \underset{final~cost}{\stackrel{4800~~ + ~~960}{5760}}`