document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=207903>Question 207903</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> I am a 15-year-old homeschool student homeschooled with the School of Tomorrow. I am doing Algebra I and am struggling with calculating questions having to do with markups, reductions and comissions. A question I am trying to solve now is \"Ace bought a tennis racket for $20 on sale. This was a reduction in price of 20%. What was the regular price?\" If you can show me how to solv problems such as this, I would be very grateful. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "If it's reduced by 20%, then $20 is 80% of the original price.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Most percent problems can be done by first finding what 1% is.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "In this case, $20 is 80%, so 1% is $20/80 = $0.25<BR>\n" );
document.write( "100% is 100 times that.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "$.025*100 = $25.\r<BR>\n" );
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