Astore advertises a sale as"get 30% off your highest prices item when you buy 2 or more items." lee buys items with prices of 30$ abd 20$. find the percent discount on the total purchase.

There was 18% discount on the total purchase.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Original price of the item 1 =$30

Original price of the item 2 = $20

Total Original cost of both items = $30 + $20 = $50

Now Given;

Get 30% off your highest prices item when you buy 2 or more items.

It means that when 2 or more items are bought the item with the largest value will get 30% discount.

From above we can say Lee has bought 2 items hence he is eligible for the discount and he will get the discount on item 1 which is highest cost in his items bought list.

Discount amount =

Price of Item 1 after discount = $30 -$9 = $21

Now Total cost on both item purchase after discount will be equal to Price of Item 1 after discount plus Original price of the item 2.

framing in equation form we get;

Total cost on both item purchase after discount = $21 + $20 = $41

Now Percent discount on total purchase can be calculated by Dividing Discount amount from Total Original cost of both items and the multiply by 100;

framing in equation form we get;

Percent discount on total purchase =

Hence There was 18% discount on the total purchase.

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