The Continental Slide New crust is continually being pushed away from divergent boundaries (where sea-floor spreading occurs), increasing Earth's surface. But the Earth isn't getting any bigger.
Ripple's XRP Price Climbs 40% on Surge in Korean Trading. The price of XRP is up more than 40 percent in the past 24 hours, a move that comes amid a period of heightened volume in global cryptocurrency markets. Data from CoinMarketCap reveals that of XRP â the cryptocurrency of the Ripple network â is trading between $0.23 and $0.24. Much of the trading volume, over $1 billion in the last day, has occurred on exchanges that offer Korean won trading pairs.
They gave me the selling price, which is cost plus markup, and they gave me the markup rate, but they didn't tell me the actual cost or markup. So I have to be clever to solve this. I will let  x  be the cost. Then the markup, being 40% of the cost, is 0.40x.And the selling price of $63 is the sum of the cost and markup, so: 63 = x + 0.40x 63 = 1x + 0.40x 63 = 1.40x 63 Ã· 1.40 = x= 45. The shoes cost the store $45.1  An item originally priced at $55 is marked 25% off.nd the selling price of $63 is the sum of the cost and markup, so: 63 = x + 0.40x 63 = 1x + 0.40x 63 = 1.40x 63 Ã· 1.40 = x= 45. The shoes cost the store $45. 1  An item originally priced at $55 is marked 25% off.