Question

Music Systems, Inc. allows a 10% discount if a purchase is paid for within 30 days. An additional 5% discount is given if the purchase is paid for within 15 days. Brent Goodson buys a sound system that originally cost $360. If he pays the entire amount at the time of purchase, how much does he pay for his system after the successive discounts?

Answer 1

Brent paid $306 for the system.

Explanation:

To figure out what he paid for his system, you will use multiplication to figure out how much the discount took off.

First, you would multiply the original cost to the discount they gave him, which is 15%.

360 * .15 = 54

The discount would take $54 off his purchase.

Next, you would use subtraction to find out what he paid in total.

360 - 54 = 306

Brent paid $306 in total after the discounts.