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percent total sales: Original post by C. Taylor of Demand Media Calculating a company's percent of total annual sales for each distinct category assists in identifying sources of sales volume. If you ran a department store, you might want to know what percent of total annual sales were derived from electronics, clothing, home and garden, automotive and toys. Assuming those categories represented all categories of the…

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