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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

The marked price of a book was 30% less than the suggested retail price. Alice purchased the book for half the marked price at a Fiftieth Anniversary sale. What percent of the suggested retail price did Alice pay?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
Without loss of generality, let's assume that the retail price was USD. The marked price of the book is off of which is equal to Half of that marked price is Therefore the percent Alice payed of the suggested retail price is
Final answer
C