What is 20% off $40?
Pay $32.00 — save $8.00
- Original price
- $40.00
- Discount (20%)
- −$8.00
- You pay
- $32.00
20% off $40 leaves a sale price of $32.00, a saving of $8.00. Multiply the price by (1 − 0.20): 40 × 0.80 = 32. To estimate a 20% discount in your head, find 10% ($4.00) and double it. Try any price and discount in the calculator below.
Discount & Sale Price Calculator
Find the sale price after one or two stacked discounts, add sales tax, and see exactly how much you save.
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Original: $80.00 · Sale price: $60.00
- Original$80.00
- Sale price$60.00
Good deal
25%A 25% effective discount saves $20.00, bringing the price to $60.00.
How it's calculated
The sale price is the original price multiplied by each discount factor in turn: sale price = original × (1 − d1 ÷ 100) × (1 − d2 ÷ 100). The amount saved equals original minus sale price. The effective discount percentage is (1 − combined multiplier) × 100, which is always less than d1 + d2 when both are positive. Sales tax is then added to the discounted price: final = sale price × (1 + tax ÷ 100). If only one discount is entered the second factor is 1 and drops out of the calculation.
Sources
- www.mathsisfun.com/percentage.html
- www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-fractions-decimals/cc-7th-percent-word-problems/a/discount-markup-and-commission-word-problems
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