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Gió
Jan 20, 2017

I am not sure you wanted this but I try...

Explanation:

Consider a product that casts 100100; a 15%15% discount means that you pay for it 100-15=85100−15=85 that is less or you can say that its price was reduced.
Same thing with, say, a temperature; if an object change temperature from 100100 to 8585 we say that the temperature decreases of 1515 or 15%15%.

I think that the important thing is the word "discount" that can be thought as similar to reduction; the percentage represents the fraction of 100 that represents this reduction.

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