Describe a simple process for using rates and unit prices that might help someone?

Question

Include either an example of your own to explain the solution process.

Answer 1

Do you mean like a stock selling for $10 a share and pays a dividend of $0.50 per year, giving a yield of 5% on the money at that price? Then by multiplying the number of shares, say 100, bought gives a basis value for the ownership, $1,000, and a potential earnings of $50 from dividends. If the price rises or falls then the yield changes, though not the direct receipt (unless the dividend changes), and the market value reflects the new price giving a profit or loss (on paper).

Do you mean that a certain lightbulb costs $0.25 and there is a sales scale of 125% of cost for sales of 1-100, 120% of cost for sales of 100-1,000, or 115% of cost for sales of over 1,000 lightbulbs? So if a salesman goes to an office and they need 75 of this lightbulb, the price is $23.44 (rounded), and at a school he has an order for 800 lightbulbs, the price is $240, and a factory has an order for 3,600 lightbulbs, their price is $1,035?

Then there is electricity or water or all kinds of things, including services, that can have unit prices and rates. Quantity times unit price is the basic issue.