You manufacture covers for barbeque grills at a cost of $5 each and make a profit of $2 per cover. The barbeque grill covers are sold to consumers by a national outdoor furniture retailer for $18,
and you know the selling price includes a markup of $9 each. What is true about this situation?

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?