We are told that a discount of 15% is offered for laptops and that a person purchased a laptop priced at $1500. To find how much was paid we need to subtract 15% of the original price, to that we will first find the 15% of 1500, by multiplying this number by 15/100, like this:
Now we will subtract this amount from the original price, like this:
Therefore, the person paid $1275