Question

An item on sale costs 5% of the origional price.origional price was $75.00. Find the sale price.

Answer 1

$3.75

Explanation:

If the item was on sale and cost 5% of its original price, to find the answer we would have to find 5% of 75 and to do this we have to do 5 ÷ 100 × 75

• 5 ÷ 100 = 0.05

• 0.05 × 75 = 3.75

This means that the price would be $3.75

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Answer 2

If it costs 5% of $75 it would be $3.75

If it is 5% off $75 it would be $71.25

How we find the answer.

To find 10% of an item you move the decimal point once to the right

If we do this to 75.00 it would be 7.500

We can remove the two 0's

7.5

We are not looking for 10% though we are looking for 5%

Half of 10 = 5 so half 7.5

3.75 is 5% of 75

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Now if we want to find out 5% off of 75 we subtract

75.00 - 3.75

71.25

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