Question

A store is having a closing sale. All items in the store are 35% off. Samantha found a jacket she wants to buy with an original price tag of 85$. Wich expression will find the price of the jacket after applying the sale?

Answer 1

65/100 × 85 = x(new price of the jacket)

Explanation:

The above question has the necessary information we need to derive the expression.

Here,Samantha found a jacket which its initial(original price was $85) but since it has a 35% price reduction, due to the fact that the store is having a close sale,the new price will be;

(100-35)% = 65%

The expression will them be

65/100 × 85= x( here x is the new price for the jacket)

Answer 2

The final price paid by Samantha is 55.25 $

Explanation:

In order to find out the final price of the jacket for Samantha we need to calculate how much 35% of 85 $ is and subtract the original price by it. So we have:

price of discount = 85*(35%) = 85*(35/100) = 85*(0.35) = 29.75 $

Now we can compute the final price by subtracting the original price by the price of discount. So we have:

final price = original price - price of discount = 85 - 29.75 = 55.25 $