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How do you find a percentage off if you have the original price and sale price?
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∙ 13y ago
Take the sale price from the original price. The difference is the discount.
Calculate the discount as a percentage of the original price. This is the 'percentage off'.
Example:
Original price 100 verdibors
Sale price 80 verdibors
Discount = 100-80=20 verdibors.
So percentage off is 20/100 = 20%
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Calculating percentages:
To convert fractions to percentages, multiply the top figure of the fraction by 100, then 'cancel down'.
e.g.
1/4 ..... 1/4 x 100= 100/4 = 25 %
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How do you figure the how much percent was taken off the original price if you only have the original price and the sale price?
Sale price/original price will give you a fraction. The fraction x100 gives you the percentage that the sale price is of the original price.100-(that percentage) gives the percent taken off.
How do you find the original price if you only have the sale price?
If you have only the sale price you cannot find the original price. You need to know the discount rate.
How do you find original price of sale price?
The answer depends on what information you have. If the sale price is s and the sale discount is d% then original price = 100*s/(100 - d)
A tee shirt is on sale for 15 percent off. if the original price is 26.00. what is the sales price?
Multiply the original price by the decimal percentage. 26.00 * 0.15 = 3.9, so the sale price is 26.00 - 3.90 = 22.10.
How do you find the original amount if you only have a sale price and a discount?
If the discount is D percent and the sale price is S, then the original price was S*100/(100-D)
How do you find the percentage off of an item given the original and sale price?
original price-sale price. Then original sale price/the answer to the previous.
How do you find the percent of discount if you know the original price in the sale price?
Percentage discount = 100*(1 - sale price/original price)
How do you figure the how much percent was taken off the original price if you only have the original price and the sale price?
Sale price/original price will give you a fraction. The fraction x100 gives you the percentage that the sale price is of the original price.100-(that percentage) gives the percent taken off.
How do you find the discount if you have the original price and the sale price?
Discount = Original Price minus Sale price.
How do you find the original price if you only have the sale price?
If you have only the sale price you cannot find the original price. You need to know the discount rate.
How do you figure out the original price of something that you only know the ending total and the percentage off?
We're gonna tear this up. It's simple, but it will take a bit of patience, so buckle up. Ready? Let's go. You don't know the original price. You know the percent off. You know the sale price. We're in business. Let's hammer this thing. Here's how to work the problem....We don't know the original price, but we know that a percentage of it has been deducted from it (that original price) to give us a sale price, okay? Some percent off the original price is the sale price. Here's the trick. Look at the percent off. Now look at 100% minus the percent off. This new percentage represents how much of the original cost the final cost is. Got it? Another way to say that is that our new (calculated) percentage times the original price equals the sale price. Make sense? Let's pick something easy and give it a test drive.Say something costs $9 (that's the sale price), and it was marked down 10%. That means that the original cost minus 10% of the original cost is the final (the sale) price, or the $9. Now check this out. Focus. The discount was 10%, and another way to look at the problem is that the sale price is 100% -10% of the original price, which says that the sale price is 90% of that original price. Again, the sale price is 90% of the original price. See how that works? We use the discount (percentage) and make a calculation to find out how much of the original price the sale price is. We good? Super.As we now have a "new" set of facts to work with, that is, we have the sale price and the percentage of the original price that the sale price represents, we can go for it. The original price (the unknown) times the percentage of that original price that the sale price represents equals the sale price. Let's look at our example.The original price times the percentage of that price the sale price represents equals the sale price. Again, original price times that percentage we calculated equals the sale price. Now to do some math. If the original price times that new percentage equals the sale price, then the original price equals the sale price divided by the percentage. See what we did? We moved the percentage over to the other side of the equation. We divided both sides by the percentage, and it "dropped out" on the one side and appeared on the other. That's because we needed to isolate the original price (so we could solve for it using the other variables). In our example, the original price equals $9 (the sale price) divided by 90% (the percentage of the original price the sale price represents. $9 divided by 90% equals $9 divided by 0.9 which equals $10. The original price of the item was $10, and it was 10% off. The 10% of $10 equals $1, and the sale price is $10 minus $1 which equals $9. Our work checks.One more problem for fun to lock things in. At a 20% off sale, an item sells for $40 (its sale cost). What was its original cost? We know that the $40 represents 80% of the original price (100% -20%). The original price times the 80% equals $40. The original price equals $40 (the sale price) divided by the 80% (the percentage of the original price that the sale price represents). $40 divided by 80% equals $40 divided by 0.8 which equals $50. Our item's original price was $50. Last thing. $50 times 20% equals $10, and $50 minus $10 equals $40. Our work checks.We good? Excellent!I don't understandexplain more carefully
How do you find original price of sale price?
The answer depends on what information you have. If the sale price is s and the sale discount is d% then original price = 100*s/(100 - d)
How much percentage did one save if the original if the original price is 16.97 and the sale price is 14.50?
14.56 percent
How do you find the sale price of an itom?
multiply the original price with the amount of the percentagethen subtract the sale price with the original priceexample:18.50 18.50 original pricex 20 20% off__________3.80 subtract with original price :')
A tee shirt is on sale for 15 percent off. if the original price is 26.00. what is the sales price?
Multiply the original price by the decimal percentage. 26.00 * 0.15 = 3.9, so the sale price is 26.00 - 3.90 = 22.10.
How do you find the original amount if you only have a sale price and a discount?
If the discount is D percent and the sale price is S, then the original price was S*100/(100-D)
A pair of jeans in on sale for 25 off the original price Which expression represents the sale price If the original price of the jeans is 40 evaulate the expression to find the sale price?
If a pair of jeans cost 25% more than the original price which is 40, then the selling price of a pair of jeans is 50.
