SOLUTION: If a bed is reduced by 26% in a sale to £288.60, what is the original price?
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Question 1005721: If a bed is reduced by 26% in a sale to £288.60, what is the original price?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you got a 26% discount, then you paid 100% - 26% = 74% of the original price. You can write
.74x = 288.60
Now divide by .74 and get
x = 390 pounds
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