a store sells laptops for 720 each. this price is 20 percent more than what it cost the store to buy each of them. before the next model's release, store employees can purchase any remaining laptops at 23% off the store's cost cost. how much would it cost an employee to purchase one of these laptops at the sale?

462

Step-by-step explanation:

720 is 120% of the store price so to find the store price, we can muliply by the reciprical or 5/6.

720*5/6= 600

The employee can purchase the laptop at 23% off this price or at 77%. Multiply the price by 0.77 to get the employee price.

600*0.77 = 462

554.4

Step-by-step explanation:

I'm not completely sure about this but the first 20% part is useless.

Since it just tells you how much more it is than the regular cost

Now the actual problem is when you try to find 23% of 720, which is 165.6, so since it's 23% off, we do 72-165.6, 554.4.

:)