SOLUTION: An item has a price of $23.45. Price change is 179.17%. Determine original price.
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Question 1201835: An item has a price of $23.45. Price change is 179.17%. Determine original price.
Not sure how to solve.
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If that is exactly how the problem was given to you, then we don't know how to solve it either, because "price change" is not well defined.
Grammatically, a price change of 179.17% means the price INCREASED by 179.17%; that would make the new price of $23.45 279.17% of the original price. The original price x would then be calculated as
2.7917x = $23.45
x = $23.45/2.7917 = $8.40
But it is possible that the intended information is that the new price is 179.17% OF the old price; in that case the original price x would be calculated as
1.7917x = $23.45
x = $23.45/1.7917 = $13.09
The first calculation gives a result for the original price that is much closer to a whole number than the second, so it is likely that the intent of the information is that the price INCREASED BY 179.17%.
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