Question

Juanita goes shopping in Times Square, where T-shirts are 20% off today. If she buys one in the next 10 minutes, she can get an extra 10% off the sale price. How much would Juanita pay for a T-shirt right now? *

Answer 1

72%

Explanation:

As the T-shirts have 20% off and Juanita would get an extra 10% off the sale price, the additional discount would be over the price with the 20% off included. This means that the sale price is the 80% of the normal price and an additional 10% over that 80% would be:

80*10%= 8

80%-8%= 72%

This means that Juanita would have to pay the 72% percent of the regular price of the T-shirt as the total discount would be 28% off.