Question

Today, everything at a store is on sale. The store offers a 20% discount. Write an equation for this situation in terms of y.

Answer 1

The discount price will be 0.8X dollars.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given,

Price of an item = X dollars

Discount = 20%

Amount of discount = 20% of Price of item

Amount of discount =  

Price of item after discount = Price of item - Amount of discount

Price of item after discount = X-0.2X = 0.8X dollars

The discount price will be 0.8X dollars.

Keywords: discount, subtraction