A school district signs a contract to purchase 50 of the electric typewriters (normally selling for $129.95) from ABC at a quantity discount of 18%. What price does the school district pay for each typewriter?

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Lura · Answer

For this problem,I would use subtraction.Subtract each number to find the answer.
-Lura

iFish · Answer

So, we want to take 18% of 129.95.
$$129.95/18~Percent=23.39$$
So, using that information, subtract 23.39 from 129.95.
$$129.95-23.39=106.56$$
Now, we've found our price per electric type-writer.
All we have to do is now multiply, 106.56 x 50 Type-Writers.
$$106.56\times50=5328$$
Now we've found our answer, which is $5328.

To put this into terms, The school paid $5328 for the 50 electric type-writers.
I hope this helped!