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Find the sale price of a $15 item after a 20% discount.

User Udog
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Answer:

12

Explanation:

find 20% of 15 and then take that away from the 15

User Cyberbemon
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What you would do is X/15 and 20/100 Now cross multiply so x100 = 15 x 20 15 x 20 = 300, but you need to have x by it self so 300/100 = 3

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