Question

If a customer receives a telephone bill in the amount of $355 and the telephone company offers a 3 percent cash discount if the bill is paid before January 1st, what is the amount of the bill?

$344.35

$248.50

$354.35

$106.50

Answer 1

@Koikkara

Answer 2

@arano1 Please give a try, and i will help you correct it.

Answer 3

Is it past January 1st yet?

Answer 4

would $248.50 be my answer?

Answer 5

@arano1 it's a wrong answer, show your calculations please !

Answer 6

to find the percent of the discount take the original amount and multiply it by the percentage of the discount.

ie. 355 x 0.03 = ? <-- that number will be the amount that will be discounted ( call it x)

then take x and subtract that from the original amount,
original amount - x or 355 -x
that will give you the final amount after the discout

Answer 7

@Koikkara why are you giving him such a hard time dude?

Answer 8

355 - .3% = 354. so would it be c?

Answer 9

remember that which percentages it is over 100. so 40% would be 0.4
99% would be 0.99, 1% would be 0.01

Answer 10

Yes @arano1

Answer 11

ty

Answer 12

@redbeardd You made him easy to copy-paste for Homework.

Answer 13

im a her -_-

Answer 14

The answer is not c

Answer 15

you can't just subtract 0.03 you multiply that into the original amount to get the discount. That number you get will be 3% or 355, then take that number and subtract it from the original to get the final cost.

354 is wrong because $1 is not 3 percent of 355

Answer 16

@Koikkara thats arguable, but whatever the case is its better than you telling her she has the right answer when its wrong?

Answer 17

@redbeardd Ref: http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1410198495 , Also proove where i went wrong...And Please don't argue !

Answer 18

@Koikkara She said that her answer was c, and you said yes.