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Question 1012747: A shirt is on sale for 12.75 . this is 15% off the original price. What was the original price of the shirt? Can you help?
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, fractalier:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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P-%2815%2F100%29P=12.75
P-0.15P=12.75
P%280.85%29=12.75
P=12.75%2F0.85
Work that out for the final answer.

Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If $12.75 is the sale price, that is, after you got 15% off, it must be 85% of the original price...call the original price x...we can write
.85x = 12.75
x = 12.75/.85 = $15.00