Question

Luis purchased a laptop computer that was marked down by 2/5of the original price. What fractional part of the original price did Luis pay?

Answer 1

Problem

Luis purchased a laptop computer that was marked down by 2/5

of the original price. What fractional part of the original price did Luis pay?​

Solution

For this case we can express the total as 1 and then we can do the following operation:

`1-(2)/(5)=(5)/(5)-(2)/(5)=(5-2)/(5)=(3)/(5)`

And we can conclude that Luis paid 3/5 of the original price for this case