The recommended
The recommended price of the novel "Laughing Sun" is 285 SKK. The bookseller bought 60 pieces of the novel at the wholesale store and paid 82% of the recommended price (18% is his profit for selling books). He sold 55 pieces of the novel and sold the remaining five pieces on sale for sixty crowns for the recommended price.
Calculate whether he remade or earned on this event and how many crowns. Write the result - a profit as a positive number, a loss as a negative.
Calculate whether he remade or earned on this event and how many crowns. Write the result - a profit as a positive number, a loss as a negative.
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