Percents and Applications of Percents Prep Like a Pro: 55 Your Go-To Question Guide Correctly Answers
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A book is regularly priced at $40.00, it is on sale for 10% off, what is the discounted price? - ️️10 = x
100 40
400 = 100x
100 100
x = $4.00
$36.00 is your sale or discounted price
A car salesman was able to sell a car for $12,500, earning a commission of 5%. How much was his comm...
Percents and Applications of Percents
Prep Like a Pro: 55 Your Go-To Question
Guide
A book is regularly priced at $40.00, it is on sale for 10% off, what is the discounted price? - ✔ ✔ 10 =
x
100 40
400 = 100x
100 100
x = $4.00
$36.00 is your sale or discounted price
A car salesman was able to sell a car for $12,500, earning a commission of 5%. How much was his
commission? - ✔ ✔ $625
A community is considering increasing the sales tax rate 0.5% to fund a new sports arena. If the tax rate
is raised, how much more will you pay in sales tax on $500? - ✔ ✔ $2.50
A model car has a list price of $46.20. The model is on sale at 15% off. Find the total cost to the nearest
cent after a 4.5% sales tax is added to the sale price. - ✔ ✔ $41.04
A new novel is selling for $21.95. If it is on sale at 20% off, find the amount of the discount and the sale
price. - ✔ ✔ $4.39, $17.56
A retailer buys jackets at a cost of $24 each and sells them at a 175% increase in price. What is the retail
price of a jacket? - ✔ ✔ $66
A store is running a sale for 50% off this Friday. Next Friday they give an additional 50% off of this
Friday's price. If a coat originally costs $100, what is the sale price of the coat next Friday? - ✔ ✔ ***
you are not adding the percents together- you do not get this coat for free---- the business would be out
of business!!
, .5(100)
50
.5(50)
Final price $25
A student earned a grade of 80% on a math test that had 20 problems. How many problems on this test
did the student answer correctly? (round to the nearest whole number) - ✔ ✔ 16
Always change your percents into ______
to work with themI - ✔ ✔ decimals
75% becomes .75
Brian is a salesman for a wholesale computer parts company. He earns straight commission at a rate of
4%. Last month his total sales were $82,968.00. What was his gross monthly income last month? - ✔
✔ $3,318.72
Charles invested $12,500, for 5 years at a rate of 4%. Find the total money he has after 5 years. - ✔ ✔
Substitute into I=prt
and then find the total amount by adding the interest earned to the amount invested
I=prt
I = (12,500)(.04)(5)
I= $2,500
Total Amount = $12,500 + $2500
Total Amount = $14,500
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