Your friend recently sold 150 head of steers on wheat to a local cattle buyer with a price slide. He has asked you to come and help ship in May because he knows you went to college and he is hoping you can make sure the cattle buyer calculates everything correctly. The cattle buyer offered a price of $224/cwt with a $.05 slide starting at 725. The agreed shrink is 2%. It is now May and the morning to ship your friend’s steers. The net weight (before shrink) is 112,500 pounds. Please calculate what the cattle buyer owes your friend.

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Your friend recently sold 150 head of steers on wheat to a local cattle buyer with a price slide. He has asked you to come and help ship in May because he knows you went to college and he is hoping you can make sure the cattle buyer calculates everything correctly. The cattle buyer offered a price of $224/cwt with a $.05 slide starting at 725. The agreed shrink is 2%. It is now May and the morning to ship your friend’s steers. The net weight (before shrink) is 112,500 pounds. Please calculate what the cattle buyer owes your friend. 

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