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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

The total in-store price for an appliance is . A television commercial advertises the same product for three easy payments of and a one-time shipping and handling charge of . How many cents are saved by buying the appliance from the television advertiser?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The original problem statement had "how much is saved". However, because this made little sense when the calculations were done, the problem statement was changed to "how many cents". We see that 3 payments of will be a total cost of Adding this to we have a total of Clearly, this differs from by cents. Thus, the answer is
Final answer
B