1. Finding Discount
Objective: Students will calculate percentages and find the amount of discount.

2. Copy these Steps: Finding Discounts
Step 1: Find the amount of the discount (the percent)
Step 2:Turn the percent into a decimal and Multiply it by the original price
Step 3: Subtract the discount amount to the original price.

3. Finding Discount You can…
Change the percent to a decimal and multiply.
Write an equation to find the missing percent.
Write a proportion like percent problems

4. Discount
Discount
When an item is on sale, the store is selling the item for less, so this is called discount.

5. Discount
Ex1: You buy a pair of jeans that is 30% off the original price of $29. What is the sale price of an item?
Find the amount of the discount:
30% of $29
0.3 x 29
$8.70
Subtract the discount from the original price
$ =
$20.30

6. Discount Find the amount of discount
A $36 book is on sale for $27. What is the amount of discount?
Find the percent of discount
What is the percent of discount for the book in the problem before?
$9.00
25%

7. Discount
A $90 coat is on sale for $ What is the amount of discount?
What is the percent of discount for the coat in problem 1?
Find the cost after discount: $85 radio, 10% discount.