Joe works at Target and gets a 10% employee discount on his purchases. If he buys the following items, what will he pay after his discount, but before sales tax?

Item Regular Price
Soda $1.25
Chips $2.05
Candy $4.99
Birthday Card $2.89

Question

Joe works at Target and gets a 10% employee discount on his purchases.  If he buys the following items, what will he pay after his discount, but before sales tax?

Item	Regular Price
Soda	$1.25
Chips	$2.05
Candy	$4.99
Birthday Card	$2.89

chiunlee12 · Answer

Assuming that he gets a discount on the total value, you must first add the cost of each product

chiunlee12 · Answer

So soda+candy+chips+ birthday card

chiunlee12 · Answer

Afterwards you multiply this total value by (1-0.1) because he is getting a 10 percent discount

tylermckinney16 · Answer

$10.06200??

tylermckinney16 · Answer

@chiunlee12

chiunlee12 · Answer

Yup, that would be correct :)