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A store promotes 2 liter bottles of soda for $1.29 for a week.  The cost of the soda is $.95.  What is the maintained markup achieved?

Last year, a department had sales for the month of February of $560,000.  This year, sales for the month of February totaled $540,000.  What was the percentage change?  Note: please express your answer with a + or – at the beginning (i.e. -5.2 or +5.2) 

A buyer planned seasonal markdowns at 12% and sales at $630,000. What is the maximum amount of markdowns that can be taken without exceeding plan?

Macy’s is an example of which type of store:

A baseball glove that retails at $65 was promoted at 25% off.  What was the selling price of the glove?

A store has gross sales of $5,400,000 with a customer returns percent of 5%.  The store has 9000 square feet of selling space.  What is the store’s sales per square foot?

A group of 150 lamps is being marked down from $60 each to $49.99. At the first markdown, 60 are sold. The remaining lamps are marked to $39.99 and 30 are sold. Finally, the remaining lamps are reduced to $19.99 and another 30 are sold. What is the total markdown $ amount?

A coat retails for $198.  If the store has a 56% markup, what do they need to pay for the coat (find the cost)?

Which formula would you use to find retail?

The most common cause of mortality in the United States is: