Question

A pair of boots was originally priced at $200. The store put them on sale for 25% off. A month later, the

boots were reduced an additional 50% off the previous sale price. What is the price now?

Answer 1

$75.00

Explanation:

Answer 2

$75

Explanation:

Answer:

$28.83

Explanation:

We will use:
`(part)/(whole)=(percent)/(100)` and then use cross multiplication.

Let's solve the first sale

We have:

percent = 25%

whole = $200

we want to solve for "part". Lets set the equation up before we plug anything in

`part*100=percent*whole`

`part = ((percent*whole)/(100) )`

now plug everything in:

`part = ((25*200)/(100) )`

part = $50

what does this mean?

Well it actually means $50 is the amount of money we take away from our original price of $200.

So we subtract that from our total.

$200 - $50 = $150

Next we will do the second sale.

percent = 50%

whole = $150

Use the same equation as above:

`part = ((50*150)/(100) )`

part = $75