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A Department Store Buys a Wool Coat for $120 and Sets

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A department store buys a wool coat for $120 and sets its retail price at $300. The coat costs $85 to produce. When the coat doesn't sell, the store marks the price down to $200, then $100, and finally $70. At $70, Amy buys the coat. What was the coat's true value? Why?


Definitions:

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

Right-Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the mean and median are greater than the mode.

Normal Probability Distribution

A bell-shaped curve distribution characterized by its mean and standard deviation, with data symmetrically distributed around the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measurement that quantifies the dispersion or spread of a set of data points around their mean.

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