Workwear Station Uses a Mark-Up on Cost of 60% to Establish

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Short Answer

Workwear Station uses a mark-up on cost of 60% to establish its retail prices. This pricing rule builds in a profit of 25% of cost. What rate of markdown can Workwear Station offer and just break even on the reduced price?

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Definitions:

Exponential

Pertaining to a mathematical function or increase that grows more significant or at an increasingly rapid rate relative to its current value.

Standard Deviations

A way of evaluating the extent of dispersion or deviation in a group of values.

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric around its mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Statistical Inference

The process of drawing conclusions about population parameters based on a sample taken from the population.