Question

You offer senior citizens a 20 percent discount on their meal prices served at your cafeteria. Assuming that an average of 150 senior citizens eat daily at your cafeteria and that the average price of their meals before discount is $5.95, how much total discount do you give on an average daily basis? A. 1,79 B. 17.85 C. 178.50 D. 1785.00

Answer 1

20% • $5.95= $1.19 
150 • $1.19 = $178.50
Your answer is C.

Answer 2

Given, there are an average of 150 citizens eat daile in the cafeteria.

The average price of their meals = $5.95.

The discount given for sinior citizens in their meals = 20%

So we have to find 20% of $5.95 first.

20% of $5.95 = $(5.95)(\frac{20}{100} )$

= $\frac{(5.95)(20)}{100}$

= $\frac{119}{100}$

= $1.19$

So, the amount of discount given to the senior citizens = $1.19 per head.

As there are 150 cinior citizens daily.

So total discount given daily = $$(150)(1.19)$ =$$178.5$

So we have got the required answer.

Option C is correct here.