When one of the discounts is an absolute discount (10 cents) and the other is relative (20%), it is not posible to give an answer without knowing the starting price.
1.5 dozen = 18. The unit cost is misspecified and therefore ambiguous. At ten cents each, that would be 180 cents At ten cents for three, it would be 60 cents.
Not exactly. Cost x 1.15 is the total of the original cost plus the 15 percent addition. If cost was $1.00, c x 1.15 would be $1.15. 15 percent of cost is only the 15 cents.
140/0.85 = 164.7
$1950
$35.71
$21.60
$21
10cents
I think it was 10cents
10cents
10cents per meter
An Electric Razor Costs 10cents in the 1950's
In the 1930's, Bacon was around 38¢ per pound...
In the 1930s, cheese prices probably ranged around 5 cents.
That would depend on what candy you were talking about. Chocolate bars, for example, were under $0.25.
$7.65 $10 * 15% = 1.5 10-1.5= 8.5 $8.5 x 10% = .85 8.5 - 0.85 = 7.65
The discounts reduce the cost of the merchandise inventory.