Question

Gayle can use her 12% employee discount once a week. Last Saturday, she bought a $45 sweater at 1/3 off and used her discount on a suit marched $160. In which purchase did she save more money? How much more?

Answer 1

Hello!
Let's calculate the savings on the sweater first. 1/3 of 45. This means we only have to divide 45 by 3, which is 15.

The discount on the suit is her 12% employee discount. The way I always calculate percentages is I make a fraction first. In this case that would be 12/100. We divide 160 by 100, which is 1.6 and multiply it by 12. the discount will be 19.2

This means she saved more money on the purchase of the suit!
Hope this helped you!

Answer 2

I agree with the other answer.