{"id":50199,"date":"2025-09-27T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50199"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:37:38","slug":"consumer-math-a-discount-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/consumer-math-a-discount-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer math: a discount problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring math, consumer situations come up. The tutor mentions a common type.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s imagine an item is on sale for 1.25. A sign underneath it reports savings of 37 percent. What would be the regular price of that item?<\/p>\n<p>\nLet x be the regular price. Next, realize that if the discount is 37 percent, then 1.25 is 63 percent of the regular price, since 37 + 63 = 100. Therefore, 0.63x = 1.25. Dividing both sides by 0.63, one gets x=1.25\/0.63, which is 1.98 (rounded to the nearest cent). Therefore, the regular price of the item would be 1.98.<\/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, consumer situations come up. The tutor mentions a common type. Let&#8217;s imagine an item is on sale for 1.25. A sign underneath it reports savings of 37 percent. What would be the regular price of that item? Let &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/consumer-math-a-discount-problem\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consumer math: a discount problem<\/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],"tags":[3797,3800,3799],"class_list":["post-50199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-math","tag-percent","tag-regular-price","tag-sale-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50199","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=50199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50200,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50199\/revisions\/50200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}