Pat paid $35 for a shirt that originally cost $50. What percent of the original price did the shirt cost? Please show working. I calculated it to be 30% but the answers provided are (a) 40% (b) 65% (c) 70% (d) 85%.........Please Help me
35/50 is 70%. That is the fraction of original price paid.
What you calculated is the discount.
To calculate the percentage of the original price that the shirt cost, you can use the following formula:
Percentage = (Amount paid / Original price) x 100
Substituting the given values into the formula:
Percentage = (35 / 50) x 100 = 0.7 x 100 = 70%
So, the correct answer is (c) 70%.
Your calculation of 30% is incorrect. It seems you may have switched the amount paid and the original price. Make sure you carefully input the values into the formula to get the correct result.