Question

6 Farah is buying clothes from a website.

The website shows this information about a jacket Farah wants to buy.

Jacket

original price £30.99

sale price £16

The website claims this is a saving of 46%.

Is the sale price a saving of 46% on the original price?

Show why you think this.

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Answer 1

No ;

Explanation:

Given that :

original price = £30.99

sale price = £16

The percentage saving :

(Original price - sale price) / original price * 100%

(£30.99 - £16) / £30.99 * 100%

£14.99 / £30.99 * 100%

= 0.4837 * 100%

= 48.37%

According to the calculation above, the sale price isn't a saving of 46% on the original price, rather it is a saving of 48.37% on the original price.