Question

Angelina received two discounts on a $50 pair of shoes. The discounts were taken off one after the other. If she paid

$30 for the shoes, what was the percent discount for each coupon? Is there only one answer to this question?

Angelina received two discounts on a $50 pair of shoes. The discounts were taken off one after the other. If she paid
$30 for the shoes, what was the percent discount for each coupon? Is there only one answer to this question?

Answer 1

There are many solutions.

Explanation:

A 20% discount on $50 takes us to $40. A 25% discount on the $40 takes us to 30%.

We can also do a 4% discount to bring us to $48, followed by a 62.5% discount, to get to $30.