Question

An aquarium is on sale for $36.48 at Pet's Plus. If the oringinal price was $48 , What is the percent of decreace ?

Answer 1

Her is an easy way to solve:

36.48/48 will show how much % 36.48 is of 48

36.48/48= 76%

Then, 100-76=24

Therefore, 36.48 is 76% of 48, and that means that 24% of 48 was taken off of the original price, which resulted in the sale price of 36.48