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At a healthy foods store in Olathe, organic sugar used to

retail for $4 per pound. The price was recently decreased
by 25%. What is the new price of the sugar?

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User Geckon
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The price of organic sugar was decreased by 25%, which means the new price is 75% of the original price. To find the new price of the sugar, we can multiply the original price by 0.75:

New price = $4 * 0.75 = $3

Therefore, the new price of the organic sugar is $3 per pound.

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