Question

If an item has a retail price = $475 and a discount of $45, what percentage discount is offered?

Answer 1

A 9.47% discount was given

Explanation:

The question is asking us to find how much percent of 475 is 45. Therefore we do the following:

`(45)/(475) * (100)/(1) = (4500)/(475)`

after dividing we get 9.473 which is approximately 9.47%

To check if what we got is correct we do the opposite and instead find 9.47% of 475.

`(475)/(1) * (9.47)/(100) = (4498.25)/(100)`

After dividing we find that is equal to 44.98 which is approximately 45.