Cindy's Gift Shoppe purchased 8-inch candles at $9.95 a dozen, less a 25 percent trade discount. If the owner wishes to sell the candles at a 35 percent makeup, what should be the selling price of each dozen?

The first thing you should do for this case is to take 35% out of 9.95

We have then

(0.35) * (9.95) = 3.4825

Then, we must add this value from the original price of a dozen

9.95+3.4825 = 13.4325

less a 25 percent trade discount

13.4325 * (1-0.25) = 10.074375

answer

the selling price of each dozen should be $ 10.074375