Question

An item is regularly priced at $70. It is on sale for 60% off the regular price. How much (in dollars) is discounted from the regular price

Answer 1

Answer: The item is $42 off.

Explanation:

Whenever you have a percentage of a number you simply turn the percentage into a fraction by dividing it by 100. Here 60% would become 0.6. Then you multiply the regular price of $70 by 0.6 to get 60 percent of 70 which is 42. That means that $42 is discounted from the original.

Answer 2

60% times 100 dived by 70