Question

Suppose you want to buy 100 pens. You can buy 100 pens at a 10% discount at one store where the price is $4.99 per pen. And you can also buy 100 pens at a 15% discount at another store where the price is $5.34 per pen. (A) What is price per pen at the first store? (B) What is the price per pen at the second store? (C) What is the total price difference for 100 pens? i already solved (A) and (B), i am having trouble understanding (C).

Answer 1

If all you need to do is part C then it's pretty simple. Using the price per pen you found in parts A and B calculate what it would cost to buy 100 pens at each of those prices...then calculate the difference between those two totals.