SOLUTION: the gap is having a 40% off sale. how much will debbie save if she buys a shirt that was originally priced at $60.00

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Question 143310: the gap is having a 40% off sale. how much will debbie save if she buys a shirt that was originally priced at $60.00
Found 2 solutions by zephyr, amillion:
Answer by zephyr(9) About Me  (Show Source):
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For this type of problem, you should have an equation that looks somewhat like this.

n%2F60=40%2F100

n= the amount saved

Look at it this way.

The shirt was originally priced at $60 (really expensive >.>), right? The $60 was the full price, or 100% of the price. Since Gap is having a 40% off sale. You want to find 40% of the original price ($60). Make sense? (I hope so :D)

Now we cross multiply, and since we don't want to multiply n with anything. You multiply the 2 number that are diagonal from each other. In this case, it's going to be 60%2A40=2400.
But you can't really save $2400 on a $60 shirt...can you? So now we divide by the remaining number. (100)
2400%2F100=24
And there's your answer!
~Extra~
If you want to check, all you have to do is substitue n for any other number, and work it out like you just did, if the number comes out to be the same as the original, then you got the right answer!

Answer by amillion(1) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you will save $24.00