Question

Notebooks cost $ 1.20 each. This weekend they will be on sale for $ 0.80. What percentage is the sale

Answer 1

From the information we have, we know that each book costs 1.20 dollars. So we shall say this price is at 100% .

Now we need to form an equation to get the percentage  when the books are sold at 0.80 dollars.

100% = 1.20

       x = 0. 80

Where x is the new percentage when the sale is at 0.80 dollars.

We cross multiply the equation:

1.20 *x = 0.80 * 100

1.2x = 80

x = 80/1.2

x = 66.7%

Round off 66.7 to the nearest tenth we get 67%

The notebooks are sold at 67% (of the original cost).