Word problems about a discount

Difficulty Starter · Set oait1b

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1
A coat costs $200 and is reduced by 50%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
2
A coat costs $180 and is reduced by 5%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
3
A coat costs $40 and is reduced by 50%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
4
A coat costs $180 and is reduced by 40%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
5
A coat costs $180 and is reduced by 15%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
6
A coat costs $40 and is reduced by 50%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
7
A coat costs $80 and is reduced by 25%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
8
A coat costs $120 and is reduced by 50%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
9
A coat costs $140 and is reduced by 20%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
10
A coat costs $120 and is reduced by 30%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
11
A coat costs $140 and is reduced by 10%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
12
A coat costs $100 and is reduced by 50%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
13
A coat costs $40 and is reduced by 15%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
14
A coat costs $200 and is reduced by 25%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
15
A coat costs $60 and is reduced by 10%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
16
A coat costs $200 and is reduced by 50%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
17
A coat costs $80 and is reduced by 5%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
18
A coat costs $140 and is reduced by 50%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
19
A coat costs $40 and is reduced by 20%. What does it cost now, in dollars?
20
A coat costs $80 and is reduced by 10%. What does it cost now, in dollars?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 5 to 200.
Every problem in it will go down.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 87% of the problems: that is the 30% taken off, not the price that is left to pay.
Answers are an amount with two decimal places.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 69 different ones, 29% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 7 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.