James opens up a flower shop.  He needs to pay rent of $1200 a week with an additional 20% of rent to pay for utilities and he has 2 employees per shift with the store open 16 hours a day for 5 days a week.  If he pays each employee $12.50 an hour, what are his weekly expenses to run the store?
He is open 16*5=
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<output>80</output>
80 hours a week.
So he pays each of his employees 12.5*80=$
<gadget id="calculator">12.5*80</gadget>
<output>1_000</output>
1000 per week.
Since there are two employees, he pays them in total 2 * $1000 = $
<gadget id="calculator">2*1000</gadget>
<output>2_000</output>
2000 per week.
The utilities cost 1200*.2=$
<gadget id="calculator">1200*.2</gadget>
<output>240</output>
240.
So his total cost per week is 1200+2000+240=$
<gadget id="calculator">1200+2000+240</gadget>
<output>3_440</output>
3440.

<result>3_440</result>