SOLUTION: An object is sold for a price with an 8% tax. The final price is then $36.18. What was the original price?

Question 954961: An object is sold for a price with an 8% tax. The final price is then $36.18. What was the original price?
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Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
8 is for every hundred. That's what percent means, per-cent, per one hundred. You can either 8�100 or 36.18�100.
The convention (means the practice, the way it's generally done) is to take the per-cent and reduce it to per-one:
8�100= 0.08 And we'll call the price, our unknown, x:
x- 0.08x = 36.18 Subtract on the left: 1x-0.08x = 0.92x
0.92x= 36.18 Divide both sides by 0.92
x = 39.33 was the original price

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