Question

A sporting goods store offers 40% discount on all golf clubs. Rocco spent 20% of the money in his savings account on a golf putter. He paid $48 for the putter after the discount.Rocco wanted to use the rest of the money in his savings account to buy a set of of golf irons that has an original price of $359. Does Rocco have enough money to buy the gold irons? Explain

Answer 1

The important information from this word problem is that he spent 20% of his money. That 20% of his money is equal to $48.
We can put this into equation form.
20% percent in decimal form is 0.20
0.20x = 48
When you divide 0.20 from both sides, you get $240.