SOLUTION: Including a 14% sales tax, a tailored suit costs $456. Find the original cost of the tailored suit.

Question 932056: Including a 14% sales tax, a tailored suit costs $456. Find the original cost of the tailored suit.
Answer by Stitch(470) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Divide a percent by 100 to get it into a decimal form.
14%/100 = 0.14
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To add the percent onto a number, we must multiply the number by (1 + the percent)
This can be written as: or simply
So:
Divide both sides by 1.14

The original cost of the suit was $400
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