HP HP-67 - Page 86

82 Storing and Recalling Numbers
Example: During harvest, farmer Flem /=
Snopes trucks tomatoes to the cannery |fiz
for three days. On Monday and }§
Tuesday he hauls loads of 25 tons, 27 i§'L
tons, 19 tons, and 23 tons, for which
the cannery pays him $55 per ton. On
Wednesday the price rises to $57.50
per ton, and Snopes ships loads of 26
tons and 28 tons. If the cannery deducts
2% of the price on Monday and
Tuesday because of blight on the tomatoes, and 3% of the price on
Wednesday, what is Snopes’ total net income?
Press Display
25 27
1968 23 94.00 Total of Monday’s and
Tuesday’s tonnage.
5583 5170.00 Gross amount for
Monday and Tuesday.
5 5170.00 Gross placed in storage
register Rs.
28 103.40 Deductions for Monday
and Tuesday.
Deductions subtracted
from total in storage
register Rs.
Wednesday’s tonnage.
BRaS
26 EIED 28 63
57.50 2 Gross amount for
Wednesday.
5 3105.00 Wednesday’s gross
amount added to total in
storage register Rs.
38 Deduction for
Wednesday.
85
93.15
Wednesday’s
deduction
subtracted from total in
storage register Rs.
5
8078.45
Snopes’
total
net
income
from his tomatoes.