Discounts

This website has tutorials and activities about percentages where you can spend 5-10 minutes of the lesson. Shopping Spree Now attempt the questions below. 1. Find the amount Darrien will pay for a fishing line worth $87 if he pays $7 deposit and $5.70 per month for 24 months. How much extra does he pay in interest charges? 2. How much will Isobel pay for her wedding dress worth $1290 if she pays $90 deposit and $74 per month for two years? How much interest did she pay on the money borrowed? 3. Cody bought an item on terms, paying a deposit of $20 and monthly repayments of $23.30 for four years. How much did he pay altogether? How much extra did he pay in interest charges if the item is $601.60 when bought immediately? 4. Sienna was given a discount of 45% on a t-shirt with a marked price of $32. How much did she pay? 5. Betty was given a 7% discount on all purchases because she was a store employee. If the total of her purchases came to $85, how much did she pay? 6. After bargaining, I purchased a chess set for $240 that was originally advertised for $320. What discount was I given and what is this as a percentage of the advertised price? 7. My airline ticket was to cost me $550, but because I booked more than six weeks ahead, I was given a discount price of $385. What percentage discount was I given? 8. A bookstore discounted all its books by 15%. A further discount of 10% was given to the local school. How much did the school pay for books which were originally being sold for $1750? 9. Calculate the final price if successive discounts of 20% and 10% were applied to a price of $100. 10. Calculate the final price if successive discounts of 15% and 25% were applied to a price of $720. Does it matter which order the discounts are applied? Here are some extension questions for fast finishers. 11. A radio on sale for $50 is to be reduced in price by 30%. Later the discounted price is then increased by 30%. a) What is the final price? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">b) By what percentage (to the nearest percent) must the first discounted price by increased to give the original price? <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">12. Shelby bought a caravan priced at $10 050, on terms of $300 deposit and 60 monthly repayments $369.30 <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">a) What was the total amount paid?  <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">b) What is the interest paid expressed as a percentage of the money borrowed (to 1 decimal place)?
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