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I've actually worked this out now, my question was quite far from the solution. The increase from 20% to 35% is a 75% increase. The breakdown of the 75% is made up as follows. For sale 2, it made a 25% profit which is 5% more than the original 20% or a 25% increase. ((.25-.2)/2). The weighting...

That's great, thank you. The point I'm trying to get to is one step further though I'm afraid. From the first sale, we had a 20% margin. After the fourth, we had a 35% profit. The delta here, 15%, how do I work out the make up of that? If I was to do weighting a of 20/100*25 , 50/100 *60 and...

Sorry, Mark, thanks for your reply. Margin delta meant the change in the margin. Moving from having a 20% profit margin before the day to a 35% profit margin at the end of the day, the change is 15% or 1500 basis points (bps). Hope this makes it clearer.

I'm stumped at how to approach this problem and was hoping someone could enlighten me. If I had sold $100 of a product and made a 20% profit up until a specific day. The next day, made three sales; A) $20 making a $5 profit B) $50 making a $30 profit C) $30 making a $15 profit. So...