Part one- Your friend clipped a coupon that offered 25% off your meal (which is 19.27) find 25 % off your lunch.

Question

anonymous · Answer

How would I solve that?

mathstudent55 · Answer

The meal before the 25% off was $19.27?

mathstudent55 · Answer

25% of a number is 25% times that number.
25% = 25/100

anonymous · Answer

so .25 x 19.27

fortytherapper · Answer

Doing .25 x 19.27 will tell you how much the coupon will take off of the price of the meal, so subtracting the answer to that from the actual price will work.

I usually look at it this way. Since it's 25%, that means you're paying for 75% (Since 100%-25% = 75%), so I just multiplty .75 by 19.27 to find out how much I would pay

anonymous · Answer

I got 14.45

mathstudent55 · Answer

0.25 * 19.27 = 4.8175 = 4.82
4.82 is the discount.
Now subtract $4.82 from $19.27 to find the discounted price
$14.45 is the discounted cost of the dinner.
You are correct.