Question

John is buying new shoes. He finds the shoes he wants on sale for 30%, and the original price is $88. How much will he pay for the shoes?

Answer 1

$61.60

Explanation:

the other answer is correct.

just to add some explanation about the % considerations.

we know $88 is 100%

in order to get any other % value, we need to divide the original value by 100 (that gives us 1%), and then multiply with the number of % we want to have - in our example 70, as the discount is 30% (so the remaining part is 70% of the original price).

so, in order to get 70% we actually have to do the above things and divide by 100 and multiply by 70.

70% = (100% / 100) × 70 = 100% × 70 / 100

70 / 100 = 0.7 (that is how answer 1 actually got that multiplication factor)

70% = 100% × 0.7

70% = $88 × 0.7 = $61.60

Answer 2

61.6 dollars

Explanation:

So, lets go over what we know:

The shows orginally cost 88 dollars.

They are 30% less than that.

This basically means that the shoes will cost 70 percent of their orginal price.

We can basically find the new cost by multiplying the 88 dollars by the 70 percent.

Or, multiplying 88 by 0.7, which is the decimal form of 70%.

88*0.7=61.6

How did I get this?

Multiply 80 by 0.7:

7*8=56

We have 0.7 so it = 5.6

However, it's tens place is 80, not 8, so it will be = 56

It is the same thing in the ones place, however it is 8 not 80, so it will be 0.7*8

= 5.6

56+5.6=61.6

So 61.6 is our answer.

Hope this helps!