At first a price was decreased by 12%, then it was discounted again by an addiitional 6%. What is the percent of the total discount?
Let the price of the item==$100
100 x (1 - 0.12) ==$88.00
88 x (1 - 0.06)==$82.72 - final discount price
100 - 82.72 ==17.28% percentage of total discount.
