Why does every product end in 99 like $9.99 $1199.99?
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In marketting thats playing on the consumer's psychie. A product told to you worth 199 Rs./$ sounds much cheapey than something worth 200 Rs./$. Thats because there is a sudden change in the first digit of the value; and one would always be less than 2. Hence the play of a consumers' psychology. And it really affects the sales. I'm sure somebody morethan anybody else telling you , you would be able to analyse it for yourself when u undergo a simmilar situation.
77609
It is a marketing trick. Psychologically people will feel that something that is 29.99 is way cheaper than 30.00.
573264
It depends.  It could be the density of gold per cubic inch or the current value or it could be the percentage of a gold brick (which is about 400 troy oz.).  Either way, 99.99 is greater than .9999.
815400
Um, ok, Zanza.  Try 1.99, 4.99, 9.99, 6.95, and 3.99.  Those are actual prices, so...lemme know how many you need.
583900
Just move the decimal one spot to the left\nFor example:\n\nJacket costs $200.00, for ten percent discount move the decimal and you get $20.000.\nOriginal price (200) minus the ten percent discount (20) is $180.  Yay math!
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Not me. I can't figure out why businesses persist in using this outmoded contrivance. Most people look at a price like that and automatically round up in their heads. A lot of people (like myself) see it as an insult to our intelligence, and it doesn't take a genius to see there's little difference.\n\nThis convention is used in cents and in dollars, but it never amounts to large amounts.  For examples, you may see prices like $1.99, $19.99, $199.99 and you may see prices with no cents displayed like $199 or $1999, but you won't see that convention used in larger numbers like $100,000 and up (unless WalMart starts selling Rolls-Royce cars).\n\n\nWhat really gets me is how the price of gas on a pump is displayed as, say $2.78.99 rather than $2.79. I mean, is there a solid study or market analysis that shows a real reason for splitting off one one-hundredth of a cent?  \n\nPull-eeze!
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It actually means that you buy something at full price then later the manufacturer or store will reimburse you money after a certain period. Like i bought a computer for $799 the mail in rebate was $299. So actually i will have paid to buy the computer as $500. $299, i will get back in the mail. <<""Mail-In-Rebate""
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The way I learned it was that JC Penny started this to help prevent employees from stealing.  If something was 10.00 and the customer gave them a 10 dollar bill he noticed that his employees were more likely to take the money.  If it was 9.99 they would have to open the till for change, which would also post a sale.  It was easier to watch that way.\n\nBut the thought of the other poster who said 9.99 looks like 9.00 is also a valid theory
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are you asking for eleven and 1-ninth percent as a fraction?\n\nLets deal with the number first: \n11 1/9 is the same as 11 + 1/9.\nMultiply 11 by 9 to get 99/9 +1/9.\nso you get 100/9\n\nTo change to percent, you have to divide by 100. You can do this by multiplying the fractions\n(100/9) x (1/100) =100/900\n\nTo simplify: 1/9
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If the starting price is $59.99 and the markup brings it to $66.67, then you increased the price by $6.68.\n\n6.68 is approximately 11.14% of 59.99, so that is the markup.\n\n(I found the percentage by doing 6.68/59.99 = .111351892...)
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Yes, there is:\nat : 6.95 here\nhttp://www.grothmusic.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/p-AL2499.html?E+scstore\nHope this helps
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Divide 950 by 5\nAnswer: $190
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19.99 Euros  =  25.60 USD
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$1 is equal to  9.0758 MAD. Hope this helps
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price divided by 100 times 115 or multiply by 1.15
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You have to look for the repeating pattern of units digits for each problem.\n\n1998^1 ends in 8\n1998^2 ends in 4  (8X8=64)\n1998^3 ends in 2\n1998^4 ends in 6\n1998^5 ends in 8 so it's starting to repeat.  It repeats every 4 so 1998^1999 is the same as 1998^3, ends in a 2.\n\nNow for 1999^1998.\n1999^1 ends in a 9\n1999^2 ends in a 1 9X9 = 81\n1999^3 ends in 9  It's already repeating\n\nSo 1999^1998 ends just like 1999^2 did, with a 1\n\nFinally subtract these two end digits since that's all you care about: 2 - 1 = 1\n\nSo it ends in a 1
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This seems to be the general consensus:\nBecause gas companies are trying to make money. By throwing that extra 9/10ths of a cent on the price it sounds 1 cent cheaper yet it is close to being 1 cent more. Say for instance that gas is $1.00 9/10ths per gallon (which is truly 1.009 per gallon) This is very cheap for gas but it will prove my point. Now if you bought 1 gallon, it would cost you $1. Now if you by 2 gallons you would expect it to cost $2. But it cost $2.02 because the 1.009 and the other 1.009 added give you 2.018 which in money rounds to 2.02 So by doing this the gas company is making two cents. This may sound like a small amount but most people buy more than 2 gallons and the .009s added up to make more cents. So if you bought 20 gallons of \ngas at $1 per gallon it would end up costing $20.21 roughly. For the millions of people buying gas this extra money turns into thousands of dollars. You may ask why not just make it $1.01 per gallon instead of $1.00 but this would make it sound like more money than!it is. It is just like stores charging 9.99 instead of 10.00. Nine \nsounds a lot better than ten and the same applies to gas companies. Its just the \ngas companies sneaky way of making more money.\n\n\nNOTE: despite my source, I don't think this was a stupid question.