Question

Your store has 475 linear feet of shelving. Your first quarter sales were $75,000, and your second quarter sales were $86,000. (A quarter is a 3 month period of the year.) What are the average quarterly sales per linear foot?

Answer 1

Answer:

$169.47

Step-by-step explanation:

Average quarterly sales is the sum of both quarters divided by 2:

Average quarterly sales = $\frac{75,000+86,000}{2}=\frac{161,000}{2}=80,500$

There are 475 linear foot (of shelving).

To get average quarterly sales per linear foot, we divide average quarterly sales by total linear foot:

Average quarterly sales per linear foot = $\frac{80,500}{475}=169.47$

Thus, Average quarterly sales per linear foot is $169.47 (rounded to nearest cent)