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25%increase, 20% of total cost.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.
A Freeper that knows basic math, I love it.
Maybe I could get your help in making Rush understand the employment vs unemployment numbers and the way that changing the divisor effects the answer.
Regardless of how you state it [and when I was selling, I always knew the impact of how you said it} a billion additional dollars, to comply with EPA regs, means that all consumers will pay more for their electrical power {but not as much as if were powered by the "free" wind power}.
In a 25% mark up you multiply by 25 percent and add that number(in this case one million) to the original number( in this case 4 million) which gives you 5 million
In business you use what is called a true mark up. In a true 25% mark up you divide by 0.25 and add that number(in this case 1.6 million) to the original number(in this case 4 million) which gives you 5.6 million.