SOLUTION: The price of a washing machine is reduced in a sale.
To work out the sale price, the original price is multiplied by 0.85.
What is the percentage reduction in the sale?
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To work out the sale price, the original price is multiplied by 0.85.
What is the percentage reduction in the sale?
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Question 1053558: The price of a washing machine is reduced in a sale.
To work out the sale price, the original price is multiplied by 0.85.
What is the percentage reduction in the sale? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! To work out a reduced sale price, Let =
the price before the reduction in price.
The reduced price would be:
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This is:
[ original price ] - [ % off the original price ] = [ the reduced price ]
That's how the original price got multiplied by
so, the percentage reduction in the sale is 15%
