An exporter expects sales of 1500 dollars next year The profit margin is 5 percent and the firm has a 70 percent dividend payout ratio What is the project increase in retained earnings?

30% is 6 times larger than 5%, so the ratio is 30:5 =6:1 Meaning: for every 1 of 30%, there are 6 5%'s

Well...if you drop a 0 for ten percent that would be 150. So half of that would be 5 percent which is 75.

Compound interest functions can be represented as [(1+i)^t]*n, where i = interest rate t = time n = original number [(1.05)^5]*1500 = $1914.42

150% increase.

Percent means hundredths, so 5% is 5/100. This can be simplified to 1/20 (by dividing both numerator and denominator by 5).