Algebra 1 › How to find amount of profit
Billy buys fifteen stocks of a company for five dollars each. He sells all the stocks at eight dollars each. How much is his profit?
The retail price of gold is . Suppose Billy bought twenty gold coins at wholesale price for
each. How many gold coins can Billy buy at retail price from his profit if he chose to sell all twenty coins at
each?
Jessica sells cookies for $2 a piece. She has calculated that she makes a 23% profit on each cookie. How much does each cookie cost her to produce?
Joseph owns a local pizzeria, and of the restaurant's income goes to operating cost (paying employees, buying ingredients, etc.). If Joseph's pizzeria makes
this month, how much does Joseph take home in profit?
Jake decided to purchase a large pizza for . Deciding that he really doesn't want to eat pizza he chose to sell individual slices to his friends. If the pizza has 8 slices and each one was sold for
, what is Jake's profit?
Tommy makes profit for every
in sales at his music store. If on friday the music store made
in sales, what would be the total profit?
Jimmy's Pizza and Pasta agreed to do a fundraising event at their restaurant with the local high school. of all proceeds will be donated to help buy new textbooks. The fundraising event generated an income of
. How much money was raised for new textbooks?
Oscar normally takes of the total sales at his phone store as profit. Unfortunately, some unexpected bills came up that needed to be paid, leaving Oscar with a remaining
in profit for the month. If the store had
in total sales for the month, what percent of the profits were used to pay the unexpected bills?
Jimmy runs his own small packing and shipping firm. His business plan appropriates in employee wages and this month the property lease consumed
of net income and cost of product accounted for
of net income spent. This month, Jimmy's company had a net income of
. After overhead and employee wages, how much will Jimmy collect as profit for the month?
An item selling for $15.40 makes a 10% profit. How many of these items must be sold in order to make a total profit of $10,000?