Simple Interest Answers

Which scenario is modeled in the diagram below?PercentsTotal80%20%100%20%20%20%20% $6.87

Janice earns a 4 percent commission for the medical equipment that she sells. If she earned $1,823.94 in commission on the digital x-ray machine that she sold, what was the cost of the machine?

Yasmin bought several items at the discount store. She paid 8.75 percent sales tax, an amount of $4.59, on the total amount of her purchase. What was the total amount of her purchase before tax was added?

By using the 20 percent off coupon that she found in the newspaper, Jill saved $4 on the extra large bag of dog food that she bought. PercentsTotal20%20%20%20%20%100%$4$4$4$4$4 What was the cost of the bag of dog food without the coupon?

A flat-screen television was marked down by 35 percent, which reduced its price by $115.65. What was the original cost of the television before it was marked down?

Which scenario is modeled by the equation ?

Sam’s parents agreed to pay 25 percent of the cost of a new bike if Sam paid the rest.PercentsTotal25%25%25%25%100%$65$65$65$65 If Sam’s parents paid $65, what was the price of Sam’s new bike?

Which scenario is modeled by the equation ?

Hiroto paid $4.28 in sales tax for the items that he purchased. PercentsTotal 100% If the sales tax rate was 6.25 percent, what was the total cost of the items before tax was added?

The price of a laptop was marked 80 percent off because it had a cracked screen.PercentsTotal80% x 20%100%$150 If this resulted in a savings of $600, what is the value of x in the table above?