SOLUTION: After a 25% reduction, you purchase a table for $180. What was the table's price before the reduction? The answer for it is 240, but I'm not sure how to get that answer.....

Question 703619: After a 25% reduction, you purchase a table for $180. What was the table's price before the reduction? The answer for it is 240, but I'm not sure how to get that answer.....
Answer by rimjhim.tomar(21) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
suppose the price was $x.
then 25% of x = x*25/100 = x/4
hence price of the table after reduction of 25%= x-x/4= 3x/4
but from given data,
after 25% of reduction ...u purchase the table for $180.
hence 3x/4= 180
or
x=180*4/3 (cross multiplication)
x=720/3
x=240
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