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Choose the correct answer. If an item has a retail price = $1,995 and a discount of 15%, how much is the discount?

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For this case we can make the following rule of three:

1995 $ ----------------> 100%

x ------------------------> 15%

From here, we clear the value of x. We have then:


x = \frac {15} {100} * 1995\\x = 299.25

Answer:

the discount of the item is:


x = 299.25

User Mirjam
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The answer to this equation is $299.25
What you do to get the answer is 1995*.15=299.25

I hope this helps

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