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SAT Math 5.4 Numbers and Operations 214 Views
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SAT Math 5.4 Numbers and Operations
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- 00:02
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- 00:06
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- 00:12
A sweater is on sale for 25% off the original price. Beth has a coupon for an additional
- 00:17
10% off the sale price. What is the total discount (as a percent)?
- 00:23
Okay, so even though this problem doesn’t give us the original price of the sweater,
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- 00:27
we have enough information to find the answer.
- 00:29
25% off means that Beth is paying 75% of the original price.
- 00:35
10% off the sale price means that Beth is paying 90% of that 75% of the original price.
- 00:42
All we have to do is multiply the decimal forms of those percents.
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And we get 0.9 times 0.75 is 0.675. Or 67.5% of the original price.
- 00:54
The original price is 100%.
- 00:57
So we can subtract 100% by the percentage Beth is actually paying 67.5%...
- 01:02
to get the percent discount.
- 01:04
Got that? 100% - 67.5% equals 32.5%...
- 01:10
So the percent discount is 32.5% and we're done.
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