Jayden used a Groupon at the local pizza shop. Instead of paying $15, for the pizza, he paid $12. Haley and Arianna agree that the percent of decrease is 20% but their explanations differ. Haley says to find the 20%, you have to determine what percent of 15 is 12. Arianna thinks you have to determine what percent of 15 is 3. Who is correct? Explain your thinking.

She is correct because they need to find how much is the discounted price, which is 3. So to see what percentage it is, they need to see how much 3 is worth in comparison to 15. If we spilt 15 into 5 parts to make every part worth 20%, the answer would be 3. Thus Arianna is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

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by applying the distributive property :

6 × 4.3 = 6 × ( 4 + 0.3 )

            =   (6 ×   4) + (6 ×   0.3)

            = 24 + 1.8

6 × 4.3 = 25.8