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A store owner buys a case of 144 pens for $28.80. He sells the pens for $0.40 each. The owner claims that they marked the pens up by 50% before selling them. Prove that the owner calculated their markup correctly. If they did not, how much of a markup actually occurred?

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Answer: $0.3

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

The owner buys 144 pens for $28.80 i.e. each pen costs

[tex]\dfrac{28.80}{144}=\$0.2[/tex]

owner sells the pen at $0.4 i.e. price marked up by

[tex]\Rightarrow \dfrac{0.4-0.2}{0.2}\times 100=100\%[/tex]

So, the claim of the owner is incorrect

The actual increase in the price to get 50% markup

[tex]\Rightarrow 0.2\times (1+0.5)=\$0.3[/tex]

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