Question

10. Use the following information to answer the questions: Today, everything at the mall is on sale. The store offers a 10% discount.

a. The regular price of a T-shirt is $27. What is the discount price?

b. If the regular price of an item is x dollars, what is the discount price in dollars? Write an equation

c. The discount price of a socks is $13.50. What is the regular price?

Answer 1

a. The T-shirt on discount is $24.30

b. x = 0.9r

c. The regular price of the socks is $15

Explanation:

If everything in the mall is at a 10% discount then you must multiply every regular sale by 0.9(90%). To get the regular price of the socks, you must divide by 0.9(10%).