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Winter clothing is on sale for 20 percent off. Write an expression to represent the total sale cost of a piece of winter clothing that originally costs $d?

User Rana Soyab
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0.2d because twenty percent is 0.2 which is
20% = 0.2 so basically subtract 0.2 with the original price ...I think
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20% is equal to .2 if 1 is the whole.
You would multiply the original cost, d, by .2 to get an answer.
Therefore, the expression is: 0.2d
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