Question

A local food mart donates 15% of its Friday sales to a charity. This Friday, the food mart had sales totaling $380.00. How much of Friday's sales will be donated to the charity?

A. $28.50
B. $57.00
C. $114.00
D. $228.00

Answer 1

B. $57.00 you do $380.00 x.15 for 15% and it’ll give you $57.00

Answer 2

The answer is B.

The reason is because what you do to find that discount from your original amount, you multiply your amount that you have from the start, (380.00) and multiply that by your discount or sale, whatever, and make sure to put as a decimal and then you get your answer