SOLUTION: Please explain and say not to look at other lessons because I don't know what you're talking about and it's not helping me. Just explain and work it out in middle school mode on he

Question 4645: Please explain and say not to look at other lessons because I don't know what you're talking about and it's not helping me. Just explain and work it out in middle school mode on here (not in college terms):
A pair of jeans sells for $36 after a 25% discount. What is the original price of the jeans?
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Look at the "lessons" on this site. Once there, look for percentages. Anyway...

Let original price be x. It is this that is reduced by 25% to give a sale price of $36.

So, what is 25% of x? since we have to find this and then take it away from x.

25% means "25 percent" ie "25 out of 100" ie 25/100.
Of means multiply...so: 25% of x is (25/100)*x --> 0.25x

Now we have to take this away from the original price (x), so we get x-0.25x and this now equals 36.

x-0.25x=36
0.75x = 36
x = 36/0.75
x = 48

So, the answer is $48.

jon.

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