ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Math Videos 206 videos
Statistics, Data, and Probability I: Drill Set 2, Problem 2. If this trend continues, what will be the price in week 7?
Statistics, Data, and Probability I: Drill Set 2, Problem 3. Which of the following statements is true?
Statistics, Data, and Probability I: Drill Set 2, Problem 4. Which of the following statements is true?
CAHSEE Math 3.4 Number Sense 269 Views
Share It!
Description:
Number Sense Drill 3 Problem 4. What is the sales price of the jacket?
Transcript
- 00:03
And here's your shmoop du jour.
- 00:06
Realdeal25 has been trying to sell a number of jackets on eBay that he advertises as
- 00:11
"actually worn by the great Charlie Sheen."
- 00:14
Either no one believes him or no one... cares...
- 00:16
because they haven't quite flown off the e-shelves as he had hoped.
Full Transcript
- 00:19
They originally went for $80 each... but he is now offering them on sale for 35% off
- 00:24
in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to rid himself of these things.
- 00:28
What is the sale price of the jacket?
- 00:31
Here are the potential answers...
- 00:36
So this question is a two-parter.
- 00:38
First we have to calculate the new sales price -- 35% off.
- 00:42
Old price: $80.
- 00:44
Discount: 35% of the old price which is... .35 times 80... or 28.
- 00:50
Now we simply subtract the discount from the old price...
- 00:53
...and we get $52. Answer C.
- 00:56
Realdeal25 gets excited when he sees that he finally has an order request...
- 01:00
...until he realizes that it's some prankster asking for two-and-a-half jackets.
Related Videos
CAHSEE Math: Algebra and Functions Drill 5, Problem 3. Solve the equation.
We don't like knocking people down to size, but we do like simplifying radicals. Join us?
If fleeing criminals always fled the scene of the crime at perfect right angles, it would be much easier to determine their whereabouts. Fortunatel...
Okay, so this probably isn't going to help you master Pokemon Go, but game theory can be applied to all sorts of situations. Even stomping your old...