find the missing values
original price= $600, Rate of discount____, Amount of discount $120, and Sale price____?

Whats the Rate of discount & Sales Price?

Question

find the missing values 
original price= $600, Rate of discount____, Amount of discount $120, and Sale price____?

Whats the Rate of discount & Sales Price?

anonymous · Answer

rate of discount is 120/600 and the sales price would be 600-120/600

mathstudent55 · Answer

Not quite.

anonymous · Answer

*actually 600-120 for sales price... sorry

mathstudent55 · Answer

The rate of discount is how much what percent of original price is the amount of discount:
The amount of discount is $120, and the original price is $600, so rate of discount is:
120/600 x 100

anonymous · Answer

that's your percentage...

anonymous · Answer

so then your rate would be .2 or 20% depending what you want and the sale price is 600-120= 480