Use a General Strategy for Factoring Polynomials
-A Department Store $27 \%$

Multiple Choice

Use a General Strategy for Factoring Polynomials
-A department store is having a clearance sale. The price on a television is reduced by $27 \%$ . That sale price is then reduced by another $27 \%$ . If $x$ is the television's original price, the sale price can be represented by ( $x$ $- 0.27 x ) - 0.27 ( x - 0.27 x )$ . With these two reductions, at what percentage of the original price is the television being sold? Use the factored, simplified form of the expression to answer the question.

A) $53.29 \%$
B) $46 \%$
C) $54 \%$
D) $73 \%$