A pair of jeans is on sale for 25% off the original price. What fraction of the original price is the savings?

Question

What  is the fraction of the original price savings?

 

Answer 1

When dealing with fractions, we can just assign some numbers to find this bit of information. $100 is a great original price. 25% off of $100 dollars is $25 dollars off. The sale price is $75, thus he savings is $25. 

 

We we get the fraction of the original price to the savings from: 

 

$25/$100 = 1/4