Question

Bo is buying a board game that usually costs B dollars. The game is on sale, and the price has been reduced by 18%, percent.Which of the following expressions could represent how much Bo pays for the game? 2 awnsers

Answer 1

what the Dino said

Explanation:

Answer 2

`0.82B`

or

`B-0.18B`

Explanation:

When the price has been reduced by 18%, you can either say that the price is 82% of the original price (100-18), or that you've subtracted 18% of the original price from the original price.

Option A. 82% of the original price

Reduction:
`18\%`

% of original price:
`100\% - 18\% = 82\% = 0.82`

Since the original price is B, the on-sale price can be expressed as:

`0.82 * B = 0.82B`

Option B. Subtracting 18%:

Reduction: 18% of B =
`0.18 * B`

Original price is B.

Original price minus the reduction:

`B - 0.18 * B`