Question

Kim's furniture store is offering a 30% discount on all its armchairs. Using a proportion, find the discount of the price of an armchair that originally cost $266.00.

Answer 1

79.8 is the discount of the price of an armchair that originally cost $266.00......... because 266.00÷30%=79.8

Answer 2

The discount is $79.80

Explanation:

We need to solve this using proportions. We take the percent out of 100 on one side of the ratio and the discount over the total price on the other.

30 discount

----- = ----------

100 266

30* 266 = 100 * discount

7980=100 discount

Divide each side by 100

7980/100 = discount

79.80 = discount