In a grocery store a $21 case of toilet paper is labeled, "Get a 20% discount." What is the discount? What is the sale price of
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First, recall that
So if , then
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Second,
We know that and
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Third,
but as we've already shown, we need to have , so we pick the negative root.
Finally,
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