74. Percent Discount Clayton bought a ticket to a rock concert at a discount. The regular price of the ticket
was $70.00, but he paid only $59.50. What was the per-
cent discount?

Please help me

$85

Step-by-step explanation:

$70.00 - 100%

$59.50 - x

x = (59.50 × 100) ÷ 70.00 = $85

or

step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!

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