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44 = 1.1c

440 = 11c

40 = c

If the price was increased to $46, the new profit would be 46 - 40 =$6.

Finally we can determine what percent the profit was of the cost.

(profit/cost) x 100%

(6/40) x 100%

(3/20) x 100%

15%

Answer: E

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Hi All,

We're told that a toy store's gross profit on a computer game was 10 percent of the cost of the game and the store increased the selling price of the game from $44 to$46 and the cost of the game remained the same. We're asked to find the store's gross profit on the game after the price increase as a percent of the cost of the game. The answer choices to this question are 'spread out' enough that we can use a bit of logic (and a little math) to get to the correct answer.

Since the initial selling price of the game is $44 - and that represents a 10% PROFIT - we know that the COST of the game is LESS than$44. Thus, raising the sell price by $2 will increase the profit by$2.

$2/$44 = 1/22 = about 5% - and since we know that the COST was less than \$44, 1/22 would be 'rounding down' (the actual fraction is likely closer to 1/20). Thus, the INCREASE in profit (as a percent of cost) is almost certainly around 5%. There's only one answer that's that much greater than the initial 10% profit we started with...

Final Answer: E

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Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:36 pm
oa e

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Pondering over some more I think Just do it is right.

E) 15% is right. Good Job Just do it!!

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Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:41 pm
I think its A)

I took the gross profit of 4.6 (10%of 46) % 44(used it since it says cost of the game remained the same) * 100 ~= 10.5 %.

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Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:57 pm
IMO E
consider the following

CP x x
SP 44 46
profit 44-x 46-x
according to the question stem, 44-x = 10% of x
which implies x =40

we need to find out gross profit after price increase was what % of CP
i.e
(46-x) = k% of x
putting x = 40
we get k =15% (option E)

what is the OA?

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