How do you figure out the sale price on a rug?
by Thrift Store Addict
Question by Lori M: How do you figure out the sale price on a rug?If a rug is 200 feet and the price is 11.45 a foot and the rug is on sale for a discount of .25% off. How do you figure the math problem out. Do you divide first and then multiply. What is the mechanical way to figure the math problem out.
Best answer:
Answer by Clay F
200×11.45 = price before sale then x .75 = price after sale
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3 Comments on How do you figure out the sale price on a rug?
- carano1xt on Wed, 17th Nov 2010 2:53 am
200 x 11.45 x .75 = 1717.50
- me on Wed, 17th Nov 2010 3:30 am
25% of 11.45 is $8.59 multiply that by 200
- ansmenam on Wed, 17th Nov 2010 4:17 am
Not sure where the “thumbs downs” are coming from because the answers above are correct. The only thing throwing me off here is that you’ve given the discount as “.25%.” Did you mean that the discount was a quarter of 1 percent, or do you mean the discount is 25%? Regardless, the mechanics are the same
1. Multiply 200 feet by $11.45 per foot
(200 x $11.45 = $2290)2. Mulitply $2290 by the discount (I’m assuming 25%)
( $2290 x .25 = $572.50)3. Now, subtract the discount ($572.50) from the original price ($2290) to get the price after the discount.
$2290 – $572.50 = $1717.50
Note that a quicker way of arriving at the total after discount is to multiply by .75 or (100 – discount rate (25))
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