Question

You get a discount of 20% on a 27.50 ticket.How much will your ticket cost? Desribe your method,and explain why you choose that answer.

Answer 1

so we have a 27.50 ticket ok

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

and we are getting a 20% discount. How would you write 20% in like mathematical terms?

Answer 4

.20

Answer 5

ok good

Answer 6

So it is basically 20% off 27.50 Do u remember how we wld set up the equation?

Answer 7

LOL now that I am reading it I am realizing that it is different than yesterday

Answer 8

.20=n27.50

Answer 9

uhhhh no

Answer 10

It is different than yesterday

Answer 11

ok so i dont know how you learnt it but I will show you both ways

Answer 12

why just one way

Answer 13

ok so basically we are asking what is 20% of 27.50
27.50*.20=5.5

Answer 14

so we see that 20% of 27.50 is equal to 5.50

Answer 15

did you follow?

Answer 16

so we are saying 20% of the amount the ticket would cost id $5.50

Answer 17

*is

Answer 18

=

Answer 19

no I am just correcting what i wrote b4 :D

Answer 20

ok so now our equation says 20% off of 27.50

Answer 21

so meaning that we have to remove the 20% from 27.50

Answer 22

so basically the 20% of 27.50 = 5.50

Answer 23

and so we subtract 5.50 from 27.50
27.50-5.50= 22
so when you get 20% off the ticket the ticket will equal $22

Answer 24

LOL i tried to be clear but i doubt it

Answer 25

Star how old are you?

Answer 26

u dont wanna know

Answer 27

LOL ok but what didnt u understand

Answer 28

Star?

Answer 29

i understand the answer is 22 right?

Answer 30

ya lol I hope you understand how I got that. There is a simpler method but I only can teach u it if you understand this method correctly and it makes sense in your brain. So work on a few of these problems and when you are comfortable with it I can teach u a method that is only one step

Answer 31

Lets take another example. A t-shirt costs $50 dollars. There is a sale and everything in the store is 45% off? What would the price of the t-shirt be?

Answer 32

55

Answer 33

So basically we would like to know what 45% of $50 is

Answer 34

so we would set up our equation like this .45*50=?
What is the answer?

Answer 35

2250

Answer 36

,45*50=22.5
This means that 45% of $50 is $22.50
Now since it is 45% off we have to subtract that amount from the original amount
50-22.50=27.50
so The t-shirt would cost $27.50

Answer 37

sorry i didnt see that star but ya 22.50 is the correct answer :D

Answer 38

If there is a 20% discount, then you will have to pay 80% of the $27.50 ticket price.
0.8 * 27.50 = $22.00