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Sellina’s Dried Fish Selling Business (Market Stall)
All references to currency are in Namibian Dollars (ND). All costs are based on real data.
# fish purchased to re-sell 150 / week
Cost of fish $2.00 / fish
Plastic bags
$10.00 for 100 bags
(when customers buy fish, the purchased fish are put into bags)
Transport $60.00 per weekly trip to buy fish for selling
Market stall rent $12.00 / month
Sellina’s wage
(amount needed to live)
Work hours 5 days per week (8 hour days)
# fish sold to customers 150 / week (on average)
Reasonable profit margin
(for market stall fish sellers)
She needs $100 per week to pay for her family’s food, clothes,
school fees, and necessities
20%
Using the above information, answer the following questions:
1. What is lowest price at which Sellina can sell 1
fish if she wants to make a profit considered
reasonable for fish sellers in the market?
2. Sellina actually sells her fish in the market for
$4.50 / fish. What is her profit margin (a
percentage)?
3. What is Sellina’s wage per hour? Per day?
4. Approximately how much does Sellina earn per
month in Canadian dollars? (1 CD = 4.88 ND)
(No pressure: women in northern Namibia with little
formal education and little familiarity with calculators can
successfully complete these questions).
Bonus Question:
5. Sellina’s uncle wants to hire her on Saturdays to
clean fish. He will pay Sellina her fish selling
wage. Sellina’s uncle has observed that it takes
two workers 1 hour and 40 minutes to clean one
crate of fish. He pays per crate of fish cleaned.
What will Sellina earn (ND) per crate of fish she
cleans?
Sellina selling dried fish at her
market stall in Katima Mulilo.