SOLUTION: Sandy's Crafts purchase a box of plastic flowers from the manufacturer for $109 after they received a discount amount of $26. What was the single equivalency discount? Enter as a p

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Question 1161112: Sandy's Crafts purchase a box of plastic flowers from the manufacturer for $109 after they received a discount amount of $26. What was the single equivalency discount? Enter as a positive number. Round the nearest percent
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Without the discount, The price in $ would have been
109%2B26=135
A discount of $26 out of an initial $135 price is, as a ratio or fraction of the initial price,
26%2F135=approximately0.19%28rounded%29 .
As a fraction and a percentage that number is
0.19=19%2F100=highlight%28%2219%25%22%29