Question

Kim's furniture store is offering a 40% discount on all its armchairs. Using a proportion, find the discount of the price of an armchair that originally cost $489.00. A. $489.40 B. $190.71 C. $195.60 D. $293.40

Answer 1

Your answer is C.

Explanation:

`(40)/(100) = .4`

To find the the discount, you need to multiply the original price by the percentage.

`489 *.4 = 195.6`

The discount of the chair would be
`195.6`