Question

A store is having a sale, so an employee marks down some coats from $86.88 to $65.16. What is the discount (as a percent)?

Answer 1

Answer:The discount would be 25%.

Explanation:

1.In order for us to find out the discount we need to find how much the original price got cut off.Let’s use 86.88-65.16 the answer would be 21.72.

2.Now for us to find the discount we need to find out what part of a hundred is the discount.Let’s use 86.88/21.72 the answer would be 4.

3.So now we have a fourth of a hundred and a fourth of a hundred would be 25%.

Discount given=25%=21.72

Answer 2

The original price of the coat was $86.88, and the new price after the discount is $65.16.

To find the discount as a percentage, we need to calculate the amount of the discount and then express that amount as a percentage of the original price.

The amount of the discount is:

$86.88 - $65.16 = $21.72

To express this discount as a percentage of the original price, we divide the discount amount by the original price and then multiply by 100:

($21.72 / $86.88) x 100% = 25%

So the discount is 25%.