document.write( "Question 991524: A department store is having a special sale for 4 hours on Saturday morning. Each customer will recieve an additional 10% off any sale item. If a pair of $59.95 shoes was origianlly on sale for 25% off, how much would the shoes cost during the 4-hour sale? Describe how you found your answer. Can you please help me out with this one? I'm not very good at math but heres what I tried.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "turn 59.95 to a whole number. 5995. 1995 = n \r
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\n" ); document.write( "A department store is having a special sale for 4 hours on Saturday morning. Each customer will recieve an additional 10% off any sale item. If a pair of $59.95 shoes was origianlly on sale for 25% off, how much would the shoes cost during the 4-hour sale? Describe how you found your answer. Can you please help me out with this one? I'm not very good at math but heres what I tried.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "25 + 10 = 35. shoes would be 35% off.
\n" ); document.write( "turn 59.95 to a whole number. 5995. 1995 = n \r
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You cannot add the discounts as you did
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document.write( "Let the original cost be C
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document.write( "A discount of 25% (.25), at first, means that the item would be sold for 75% of its original cost, or 75% of C or .75C (C - .25C)
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document.write( "Now, with a second discount of 10% or .1, the price after the 2nd discount would be: 90% of .75C, or .9(.75C), or .675C
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document.write( "Now, since the original cost was $59.95, then the sale price, after both discounts is: , or $40.46625, which rounds off to: \r
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document.write( "You could've also calculated: 
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document.write( "1) 25% of $59.95 to get the 1st discount
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document.write( "2) Subtract the 1st discount from the original price (59.95) to get the cost after  
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document.write( "   the 1st discount
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document.write( "3) 10% of the discounted price after the 1st discount 
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document.write( "4) Subtract the 2nd discount amount from the 1st discounted price to get the cost after  
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document.write( "   the 2nd discount. You will now have the final sale price.\r
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document.write( "That's a bit tedious than the first method so you should try learning the 1st method if you want
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