PERCENTAGES AND MONEY:
CALCULATING THE PERCENT OF A DISCOUNT

CALCULATING THE PERCENT OF A DISCOUNT LESSON PLAN

 

Teaching Materials

• Lesson - Calculating the Percent of a Discount Lesson (see below for printable lesson).

Lesson Excerpt:

What do we mean when we talk about the percent of a discount?

If we know the amount of a discount and an original price, can we figure out the percent of the discount?

The percent of the discount is the percentage that the discount is of the original price.

That may seem a little wordy. Let’s look at it another way that may seem easier to apply. Here is an example:

Example
            What % of 70 is 28?

First, we want to write an equation to solve this.
            x represents our missing %
            of means to multiply
            because “of” is next to 70 we are multiplying the unknown times 70
            is becomes =
            Our result is 28.

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