Question

A volleyball that normally costs $25.50 is on sale for 15.30.
What is the discount?
What is the percent of the discount?

Answer 1

In general the formula for percent discount is

x - %x = y, where x = original price and y = discount price.

Answer 2

pokemon will explain the rest

Answer 3

LOL

Answer 4

Basically Hero is right

Answer 5

Hero can explain to you more precise

Answer 6

Okay, so in this case, the original price is 25.50 and the sales price is 15.30.

So substituting the proper values into the formula we get:

25.50 - %(25.50) = 15.30

Now doing a little algebra, we get:
25.50(1-%) = 15.30
1-% = 15.30/25.50
1-% = .6
1- .6 = %
.4 = %
40 = %

Answer 7

Therefore, the percent discount is 40%