Question

A store has clearance items that have been marked down by 60%. They are having a sale, advertising an additional 20%off clearance items. What percent of the original price do you end up paying?Give your answer accurate to at least one decimal place.

Answer 1

The original value of the items can be called as "x", from that we can calculate the first disccount, which is shown below:

$\text{discount}=0.4\cdot x$

This is because we need to remove 60 % from the original value, x. After that there was an additional discount of 20%, therefore we have:

$\begin{gathered} \text{ final price}=0.8\cdot(0.4)\cdot x \\ \text{ final price}=0.32\cdot x \end{gathered}$

The final price is 32% of the original one.