SOLUTION: A suit was on sale for $142.50, marked down 25% from its original price. What was the original price of the suit?
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Question 1034740: A suit was on sale for $142.50, marked down 25% from its original price. What was the original price of the suit?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the $142.50 was marked down 25%, then it represents the remaining 75% of the original price.
Let's call that original price, x. Then we can write
.75x = 142.50
so that
x = 142.50/.75 = $190 original price
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