Word Problem-Please help!

Question

A supermarket makes a profit of 5% on coffee and soap. It makes a 20% profit on canned vegetables and soup. It makes a 30% profit on fresh fruits and vegetables. The market's sales one day were as it follows:

canned vegetables= $300

coffee=$200

fresh vegetables=$100

Canned soup= $150

soap=$350

Fresh fruit= $150

How much was the market's total gross profit on these items that day?

Answer 1

I am not going to fully answer this but get you started instead.  You want to calculate what 20% of $300 in canned vegetables is, that is the profit.  Always think of multiplication when you hear "a percent OF".  So you want to multiply 20% by $300 and that is the first piece.  Remember to change your percent to decimal or fraction equivalent.  I prefer in this case to use decimal so 20% is 0.20

 

Do that same calculation with each of the items and then total them up.

 

All the best,

 

Lori