Question

A sweater is marked down 35% off the original price. The original price was $40. What is the sale price of the sweater before sales tax?

Answer 1

Answer: $26

$40*.35=$14 off price of sweater

40-14=$26 sale price

Or

$40*.65=$26 sale price

Answer 2

The correct answer is $26.

Explanation:

Well, we must first analyze the information we have.

We have a sweater that was marked down 35% off.

We know that the original price of the sweater is $ 40. Now we just have to find out the final price.

But to know that, we must first know what the discount was applied.

And we find out as follows:

`Tax= 40 . 0,35`

`Tax= 14`

In this way we show that the price discounted to the sweater was $ 14

Now we just have to make a subtraction between the original price and the discount :

40-14=26

The final price of the sweater is $ 26