a fashion designer sold a pair of jeans to a retail store for 40 percent more than it cost to manufacture the pair of jeans . a customer bought the pair of jeans for 10 percent more than the retailer paid for them . the price the customer paid was what percent greater than the cost of manufacturing the jeans ?
"find the product of the two increases : ( 1.4 ) * ( 1.1 ) , which is 1.54 and a 54 % increase . a"
multiply(subtract(divide(multiply(multiply(const_100, add(const_1, divide(40, const_100))), add(const_1, divide(10, const_100))), const_100), const_1), const_100)