Problema Solution

For a sale a store decreases it's prices on all items by 25%. An item that costs $120 before the sale now costs $120-0.25($120). What is another expression for the sale price?

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let 'x' represent the price of an item, then the following expression represents the price of that item when the 25% off sale is taking place:

x - 0.25x