Answer:
You want to buy something that costs $160, and it's on sale for 35% off. What is the item's sale price?
First, convert the 35% to a real mathematical number. For percents, this is always done by dividing the 35% by 100%, or 35% / 100% = 0.350.
Second, find out what 35% of $160 is. This is the amount of the sale discount. This is always found by mulitplying 0.350 by the item's cost $160, like this:
0.350 x $160 = $56.00.
So for this sale, you'll save $56.00 on this item.
This means, the cost of the item to you is
$160 - $56.00 = $104.00.
Alternatively, you can think about it this way. The item is 35% off. This means you'll pay 65.000% of the total cost (100% - 35% = 65.000%).
Now what's 65.000% of the total cost?
0.650 x $160 = $104.00.
Just like the result above, the sale price on the item is $104.00
