Question

A store is having a 30% off sale. If the regular price
of an item is x dollars, what is the discount price in
dollars in terms of x?
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Answer 1

.7x is the discounted price in terms of x.

If we assume that the regular price is 100 dollars, then a 30% discount would yield a discounted price of $70. Which is .7 of our starting value x.