Question

The price of a recipe-book was reduced from $24.50 to$17.95. If p represents the percent decrease in price of the book, which proportion can be used to calculate p? please help :)

Answer 1

c

Explanation:

Answer 2

The required proportion is
`(p)/(100)=(24.50-17.95)/(24.50)`.

Explanation:

Consider the provided information.

The price of a recipe-book was reduced from $24.50 to$17.95.

The original price is 24.50

Reduced price is 17.95.

Let p represents the percent decrease in price of the book.

`\text{Percent decrease}=\frac{\text{Original price-Reduced price}}{\text{Original price}}* 100`

Now substitute the respective values in the above formula.

`p=(24.50-17.95)/(24.50)* 100`

`(p)/(100)=(24.50-17.95)/(24.50)`

Hence, the required proportion is
`(p)/(100)=(24.50-17.95)/(24.50)`.