Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 8 - Personal Finance - 8.1 Percent, Sales Tax and Discounts - Exercise Set 8.1 - Page 495: 38

Answer

14.4

Work Step by Step

To express a percent as a decimal, we can move the decimal point two places to the left. $P = 16\% = 0.16$ A is P percent of B A = PB A = (0.16)(90) A = 14.4
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