SOLUTION: Today only, a desk is being sold at a 35% discount. The sale price is $468. What was the price yesterday?

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Question 1016200: Today only, a desk is being sold at a 35% discount. The sale price is $468.
What was the price yesterday?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, fractalier:
Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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Today only, a desk is being sold at a 35% discount. The sale price is $468.
What was the price yesterday?
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you are given that 0.65x = 468.

Solve this equation for x, and you will know what was the price yesterday.

Notice that 0.65 = 1 - 0.35 = 65%.


Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you got 35% off, you only paid 65% of the original price. Call that x. Then we write
x = $468 / .65 = $720 is the original price.