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Thank you We sneak her sense Shmoop you have a
- 00:07
shmoop on to rent a monkey for a week for
- 00:09
twenty percent off the normal cost which is perfect because
- 00:13
a ton of your sports equipment has gotten stuck in
- 00:15
the trees in your backyard You're going to keep the
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- 00:18
lucky little monkey very busy anyway It's monkey appreciation week
- 00:22
So all monkeys are already twenty five percent off before
- 00:25
you even applied for your discount How much will you
- 00:28
end up spending for a one week monkey rental If
- 00:31
the original price is one hundred forty five bucks Here
- 00:35
are your options Let's start with the initial discount The
- 00:40
monkey weekly rental rate is one hundred forty five dollars
- 00:44
but for monkey appreciation week he's twenty five percent off
- 00:48
one hundred forty five dollars times twenty five percent or
- 00:52
zero point two five equals thirty six dollars and twenty
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five cents Subtract that amount from the original cost and
- 01:00
we get one hundred eight dollars and seventy five cents
- 01:04
The total bill after our monkey appreciation week savings Now
- 01:09
with your shmoop on you khun taken additional twenty percent
- 01:13
off the already discounted price of one hundred eight dollars
- 01:16
and seventy five cents As before we take our one
- 01:19
hundred eight dollars and seventy five cents and we multiply
- 01:22
it by twenty percent four zero point to get twenty
- 01:27
one dollars and seventy five cents Subtract that amount from
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our discounted price to get a final price of eighty
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seven dollars or answer eh But now you have your
- 01:39
very own helper monkey for a week If you can
- 01:42
get him to stop hurling frisbees at your head it 00:01:45.029 --> [endTime] will hopefully be worth it
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