Basic College Mathematics (9th Edition)

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Chapter 6 - Percent - 6.2 Percents and Fractions - 6.2 Exercises - Page 403: 91

Answer

$24

Work Step by Step

15% is 1.5 times 10%. So a shortcut to find 15% of a number is to find 10% by moving the decimal one space to the left and then multiply that by 1.5. 15% of 160=16.0$\times$1.5=24
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