Question

Item 19 Question 1 A furniture store is having a sale where everything is 40% off. a. Write a function that represents the amount of discount dd on an item with a regular price pp.

Answer 1

whatever% of anything is just (whatever/100) * anything.

therefore, if an item has been discounted by 40%, the discounte is that 40%, what is 40% of the price "p"? (40/100) * p or 0.4p.


`\bf \stackrel{discount}{d}=0.4\stackrel{original~price}{p}`