Question

On Black Friday, Amazon.com featured an Echo 2nd Generation for $42 normally selling for $72. Calculate the dollar markdown and the markdown percent based on the selling price to the nearest whole percent.

Answer 1

dollar markdown would be $30, dollar markdown percentage would be

Explanation:

Dollar markdown is $72-$42=$30

Dollar markdown percentage is ($30(price drop))÷($72(original price)) which comes to be 41%(nearest whole percentage)

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Answer 2

58.3 %
Expiation:
42 divid by 72 equals 58.333333333333…