Sally is shopping at her favorite department store, which is having a sale on sweaters. The colored dot on the sweater’s price tag indicates whether the sweater is 10% off (red dot), 25% off (yellow dot), or 50% off (blue dot). Only the original price appears on the price tag. Your task is to direct Sally on how to calculate a sweater’s sale price. Does the solution to this problem require a decision? If so, what decision needs to be made?

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Sally is shopping at her favorite department store, which is having a sale on sweaters. The colored dot on the sweater’s price tag indicates whether the sweater is 10% off (red dot), 25% off (yellow dot), or 50% off (blue dot). Only the original price appears on the price tag. Your task is to direct Sally on how to calculate a sweater’s sale price. Does the solution to this problem require a decision? If so, what decision needs to be made?

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This problem requires making the decision to help sally calculate the discount on the sweater's selling price based on being at a favorite department store.

The problem requires a sequential structure. Sally picks a sweater. then she sees the tag having the original price of the sweater. Now sally looks at the color of the dot on a sweater. Based on the color of dots, sally finds the selling price of the Sweater.

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