Question

The price of a recipe-book was reduced from $24.50 to$17.95. If p represents the percent decrease in price of the book, which proportion can be used to calculate p? please help :)

Answer 1

Answer:

The required proportion is $\frac{p}{100}=\frac{24.50-17.95}{24.50}$.

Step-by-step explanation:

Consider the provided information.

The price of a recipe-book was reduced from $24.50 to$17.95.

The original price is 24.50

Reduced price is 17.95.

Let p represents the percent decrease in price of the book.

$\text{Percent decrease}=\frac{\text{Original price-Reduced price}}{\text{Original price}}\times 100$

Now substitute the respective values in the above formula.

$p=\frac{24.50-17.95}{24.50}\times 100$

$\frac{p}{100}=\frac{24.50-17.95}{24.50}$

Hence, the required proportion is $\frac{p}{100}=\frac{24.50-17.95}{24.50}$.