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O-LevelCommerceRetail tradeOct/Nov 2019Paper 1 Q371 Mark

A retailer buys shirts for $80 and sells them with a profit of 40%. He then has a sales promotion week when he sells the shirts at cost plus $4. How many more shirts must he sell in the promotion week to make the promotion profitable?

A8
B28
C32
D112

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About This O-Level Commerce Question

This multiple-choice question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Commerce (7100) Oct/Nov 2019 examination, Paper 1 Variant 1. It tests the topic of Retail trade and is worth 1 mark.

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