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A dress was initially listed at a price that would have given the store a profit of 20 percent of the wholesale cost. What was the wholesale cost of the dress?

(1) After reducing the asking price by 10 percent, the dress sold for a net profit of 10 dollars.

(2) The dress sold for 50 dollars.


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*This question is included in Nova Press: Set A - Intro to Data Sufficiency