Question

A tool set is on sale for 424.15. The original price of the tool set was 499.00. What percent of the original price is the sale price?

How do you solve this?

Answer 1

499-424.15=74.85

499:100=4.99

74.85:4.99=15 is the percent of the discount

100-15=85 is the percent of the original price that you pay

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