>>12755603>The original selling price of an item at a store is 40 percent more than the cost of the item to the retailer.i.e. The retailer buys an item from a wholesaler at price and adds a markup of (the price with the mark up is the original price the retailer sells it for, )
>If the retailer reduces the price of the item by 15 percent of the original price,>then the difference between the reduced price and the cost of the item to the retailer>is what percent of the cost of the item to the retailer?Therefore the answer is as others have pointed out (and thank God because I'm a brainlet and don't know if I'm doing things correctly half the time).