A clothing merchant purchases a shipment of clothes for $38,000.00 with discounts of 11% and 5%. He sells it to a customer at a price which includes 22% profit on selling price and overhead expenses of 23% on selling price. a. How much did it cost him to purchase the container of clothes? b. What was the selling price of the container of clothes? c. Calculate the break-even selling price

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A clothing merchant purchases a shipment of clothes for $38,000.00 with discounts of 11% and 5%. He sells it to a customer at a price which includes 22% profit on selling price and overhead expenses of 23% on selling price.

a. How much did it cost him to purchase the container of clothes?

b. What was the selling price of the container of clothes?

c. Calculate the break-even selling price.

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