A theater offers a 20% discount to senior citizens on all tickets. The regular cost of a matinee ticket is $9.75.

Which expression represents the cost of a matinee ticket after the discount is applied?

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A theater offers a 20% discount to senior citizens on all tickets. The regular cost of a matinee ticket is $9.75.
 
Which expression represents the cost of a matinee ticket after the discount is applied?

anonymous · Answer

1/5 = 20% 
if we wanted to know how much money a senior was going to save, we'd use a. but we wanna know the total cost of the ticket, so we would need to go with b

anonymous · Answer

thx u