Question

The regular price of an item is $65. The item is on sale with a discount of $8.

What is the discount rate?

A.
0.123%

B.
1.23%

C.
8%

D.
12.3%

Answer 1

okay.. what you can do is write a proportion..

Answer 2

\[\frac{ 8 }{ 65 }=\frac{ ? }{ 100 }\] do you understand why I set it up that way? cross multiply and divide to find the '?'

Answer 3

8*?=?

Answer 4

no.. CROSS multiply and divide XD 8*100= what? then divide that by 65

Answer 5

um i did that and it was a long crazy number.

Answer 6

800/65?

Answer 7

yah

Answer 8

you should've gotten 12.307.... what does that round to?

Answer 9

12.3?

Answer 10

yes.. :) and that's already the percent because it was over 100

Answer 11

so 12.3 is my answer.

Answer 12

yes. 12.3%