Question

GroupClare buys an item with a normal price of $24, butsaves $6 by using a coupon. For what percentage offis this coupon?

Answer 1

We are given the normal price as 24, but the discount amount is 6. This means the amount she saved, which is 6, represents the percentage off the normal price. Therefore, we can express this as follows;

`\begin{gathered} \text{Percentage}=\frac{\text{discount amount}}{actual\text{ amount}}*100 \\ \text{percentage}=(6)/(24)*100 \\ \text{Percentage}=25 \end{gathered}`

This means the coupon she used was for a 25% off the normal price