Problem 8
A digital camera with an original price tag of \(\$ 500\) was marked down by $40
\% .\( You have a coupon good for an additional \)30 \%$ off.
a. What is the decay factor for the first discount?
b. What is the decay factor for the additional discount?
c. What is the effective decay factor?
d. What is the final cost of the camera?
e. What is the effective percent discount?
Problem 8
Barack Obama won 365 electoral votes out of a total of 538 electoral votes in
the 2008 presidential election. What percent of the total electoral votes did
he win? Write your result to the nearest tenth of a percent.
Problem 9
In a very disappointing season, your softball team won only \(40 \%\) of the
games it played this year. If you won 8 games, how many games did you play?
How many did you lose?