The original price of the old hardcover books was sold for b dollars. But the manager markdown the hardcover books by 42%.
The expression of the markdown using a decimal can be represented below.
Recall the markdown is 42 %. If you want to convert from percentage to a decimal, you have to move the decimal point two places to the left . The percentage sign is removed at this stage and the value is represent in decimal. Or you can just divide the percentage value by 100.
In our case the percentage value can be solved as 42/100 = 0.42 in decimal or by just simply moving the decimal points two places to the left which is 0.42.
