Math Guru Needed Badly

this sort of pathetic, shameless attempt at self-advertising is
disgusting...
and then you go and do it in another thread, too!!!

believe you me, having a link to your website posted in these forums,
even if picked up by search spiders, DOES NOT count as a good external
link and WILL NOT help you with your page/search results rankings, if
that is what you are counting on...

i mean, if your site was any good, or contained any cf advice/tutorials
or just anything cf-related (apart from that it was built in cfml), then
mentioning it here might have been justified....



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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

Hi

I think this might help out

look at www.itkong.com

As Ian said, markup and margin are two different things.
The easiest way to get the selling price using markup would be something
like this:

Cost: $50
Markup: 25%
Formula: Cost * 1.Margin = Selling Price

Selling Price: 50*1.25 = $62.50

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"bweno" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f8817j$hjg$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hello, I am really dumb at math equations so I need some help... I need
> help
> with cost / markup and final price calculations...
>
> Say I have an Item that wholesales for $50.00 and my markup is 25% ... I
> know
> how to get my profit margin price by taking:
> the question is: cost/((100-margin)/100) = selling price
> 50.00/((100-25)/100) = $66.66666666 ...
>
> Where i really run into problems is when my markup is over 100% then my
> equation goes down the crapper...
>
> For instance: when I run the equation with a 125% markup I get -12.5 and
> this
> obviously cannot be correct... Sooooooooo... Does anyone out there have
> any
> clue how to solve this problem by using markups that are larger than
> 100%....
>
> Thanks so much for anyone who can help, and those that try... :o)
>
>
>

I'm not an expert here but I think you have some of your definitions off
here. It looks like you may be mixing up markup percentage and profit
margin percentage which are separate numbers; using this page as a
reference [ http://www.dinkytown.net/java/ProfitMargin.html

I think what you may be looking for is a simple formula like this.

salePrice = wholeSale + wholeSale * markup.
IE [62.5 = 50 + 50 * .25]
Which means your profit margin would be: 20%

Then your second use case would be:
112.5 = 50 + 50 * 1.25
Which would have a profit margin of: ~56%

You can't have a profit margin of over 100%. Unless somebody paid you
to sell their product and you kept all the sales or as you got - you
have a negative wholesale price.