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Midland Electronics is advertising that everything in their store is 10% off. If p represents the original price of an item in their store, then the sale price of the item can be represented by the expression p - 0.1p.

A. Write an equivalent expression to represent the sale price of the item.

B. Using complete sentences, describe how the sale price can be found in two different ways.



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Answer:

p x 9 is the equation

Explanation:

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Answer:

Sold prise
=p-(10)/(100) p

Sale prise
=0.9p

put the value of
p, you will get sale price.

Explanation:

(A) Original price
=p

discount
=10\%\ of\ p=(10)/(100)* p

sale price = original price - discount


sale\ price\ =p-(10)/(100)* p\\ \ \ \ \ \ \ = 0.9p

(B) put the value of
p, you will get the sale price.