Question

Choose the correct answer. If an item has a retail price = $1,995 and a discount of 15%, how much is the discount?

Answer 1

The answer to this equation is $299.25
What you do to get the answer is 1995*.15=299.25

I hope this helps

Answer 2

For this case we can make the following rule of three:

1995 $ ----------------> 100%

x ------------------------> 15%

From here, we clear the value of x. We have then:

$x = \frac {15} {100} * 1995\\x = 299.25$

Answer:

the discount of the item is:

$x = 299.25$