24. two stores carry a similar stereo for the same original price of $573. one store offers a 16% discount and the second store sells the stereo for 458.40. which store gives the bigger percent discount? Justify your answer. ( 4 points)
I don't understand how to solve this.
Let's see what kind of discount the second store gives.
573 - 458.4 = $114.60
114.6 / 573 = 0.2 = 20%
so the second store has a bigger discount
Yes. 20% is bigger than 16%.
thank you
You're welcome.
can you help me put this into words? so far i have: When finding out which store gives the bigger percent discount the answer is the second store. First you need to find
That's more words than you need.
The second store offers a bigger discount at 20%. We found it by dividing the amount of the discount by the original price.