Question

A sofa regularly sells for $570. The sale price is $541.50. Find the percent decrease of the sale price from the regular price.

Answer 1

5%

Explanation:

So how I figured this out was I subtracted 570 and 541.50 to find how much of a difference there was. I got 28.50 so now I know thats how much the sale took off. I'm sure there was a better way of figuring out this next part but this is how I did it, I took 570 and multiplied it by 0.10 to see what that would be. It ended up being 57 and thats not 28.50 so I multiplied 570 by 0.05 and ended up with 28.50. You coulda also divided the 57 by two to figure out is 0.05 which equals 5%.