Algebra 1 : Monetary Percentage
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Example Question #101 : Monetary Percentage
Fronteir General Store Ltd. is having a clearance sale of 
With a discount of 
Example Question #34 : How To Find The Sale Price
If a pair of headphones retail for 
With a 
Example Question #102 : Monetary Percentage
A pair of jeans that normally retail for 
Example Question #36 : How To Find The Sale Price
Bob is shoe shopping and pays $48 for a pair of shoes. If the shoes were on sale for 20%, what was the original price of the shoes?
To find out what the original price of Bob's shoes, we use the following equation:
Let 
Solve.
Example Question #32 : How To Find The Sale Price
You go shopping and you see a shirt that costs $25. There is a sign next to it that says it is 20% off. What is the sale price of the shirt?
The sale price of something is how much we will spend after the discount is taken. So, the discount is 20%.
We must find what 20% of $25 is. We know
Now, we multiply.
So, the discount is $5. We need to determine how much we are going to pay. To do that, we subtract the discount from the original cost.
The sale price of the shirt is $20.
Example Question #32 : How To Find The Sale Price
You are shopping for jeans. You see some that are 
To find the sale price, we will first find the discount, then subtract the discount from the original price.
We know the discount is 
So the discount is 
Therefore, the sale price of the jeans is 
Example Question #39 : How To Find The Sale Price
What is the final sales price of a candy bar after applying a 
The final price is the original price added with the original price times a certain percentage applied to the original price.
With a forty percent sales tax:
Write the equation representing cost with original price plus the original price applied with the percentange.
Simplify this equation to find the cost of the candy bar.
The final price of the candy bar is 
Example Question #40 : How To Find The Sale Price
What is the sale price of a two dollar candy bar if the tax applied was five percent?
The final sales price is the original price of the candy bar plus the tax applied to the candy bar.
Five percent is:
Set up the equation to find the final sales price.
Simplify the equation.
The answer is:
Example Question #41 : How To Find The Sale Price
You go shopping and see a shirt for $15. There is a sign that says 25% off. How much will you pay for the shirt?
To find the sale price, we will first find the discount and subtract the discount from the original price.
To find the discount, we multiply the cost of the shirt by the percent discount.
The discount equals $3.75. Now, we will take that value and subtract it from the original cost of the shirt.
Therefore, the sale price of the shirt is $11.25.
Example Question #42 : How To Find The Sale Price
A pair of shoes costs $45. There is a sign that says all shoes are 14% off. What is the sale price of the shoes?
To find the sale price of an item, we will first find the amount of discount and subtract that from the original price. In other words,
We know the pair of shoes originally cost $45. We also know the discount is equal to 14% of $45. To get this value, we will multiply 14% by $45.
Now, we can substitute into the formula.
Therefore, the sale price of the shoes is $38.70.
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