{"id":46840,"date":"2024-01-15T18:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46840"},"modified":"2024-01-15T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:57:41","slug":"math-discount-then-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-discount-then-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: discount then tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring math, everyday problems need easy methods when possible. The tutor mentions one.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s imagine a consumer buys an item with sticker price $44, subject to 15% discount, then 12% tax. What is the final amount they will pay?<\/p>\n<p>\nOne way to navigate this problem is by realizing that a discount of 15% means a resultant &#8220;new price&#8221; of 85% of the original. Then, tax of 12% means paying 112% of that new price. Since &#8220;of&#8221; means &#8220;multiply,&#8221; we have<\/p>\n<p>\nFinal amount paid for item = (44)(0.85)(1.12) = 41.89<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, everyday problems need easy methods when possible. The tutor mentions one. Let&#8217;s imagine a consumer buys an item with sticker price $44, subject to 15% discount, then 12% tax. What is the final amount they will pay? One &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-discount-then-tax\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: discount then tax<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-math","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46844,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46840\/revisions\/46844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}