ok... im planning on buying a PS3 soon and my sister works for target and when she comes by im gonna ask her to use her employee discount. now i know the discount is 10%... how would i calculate 10% off a $499.99 product? (dont add tax or anything to this, i just need to know before all tax is added)
2007-09-04 05:39:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
499.99 x 10% = 50.00 Subtract the $50 from the $499.99 to get amount before tax, which would be $449.99
2007-09-04 06:12:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Multiply $499.99 by .1. You get $49.99 off the original price.
If you don't have a calculator handy, there's another easy way to quickly calculate a discount. 10% off is another way of saying "10 cents off for every dollar." So for every dollar that the item costs originally, you get 10 cents off. Or, put another way, for every 10 dollars that the item costs, you get $1 off. Since there are 50 "10 dollar" chunks in $500, you get $50 off. It's not hard on other items either. Say there is a $30 shirt that is 25% off. For every dollar of the shirt's cost, you get 25 cents off. Since there are 4 quarters in a dollar, for every 4 dollars that the shirt costs, you get a dollar off. So you'd get about 7 dollars off the shirt. It gets easier the more you do it and if you're a bargain hunter like me you'll get lots of practice. :)
2007-09-04 05:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by ♫ Sweet Honesty ♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10% would be $50 off.
2007-09-04 09:58:18 · answer #3 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋