[X4U] Tiger's Calculator.app no longer does percentages?

Richard Gilmore rgilmor at uwo.ca
Tue Nov 29 12:05:06 PST 2005




On 29/11/05 1:27 PM, "Doug McNutt" <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote:

> So I buy it for $5 and I sell it for $10. Surely it's OK to advertise
> a 50% markup. 50% of $10 is what I paid for it, isn't it?


This is exactly how retail markups are calculated. No joke. A 40% markup is
actually calculated by multiplying by 1.67

Retail business markup percentages are calculated differently from "regular"
percentages.

Just my 2 cents

Richard





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