SOLUTION: after a 70% reduction you purchase a dryer on sale for $240. what was the original price of the dryer

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Question 1156864: after a 70% reduction you purchase a dryer on sale for $240. what was the original price of the dryer
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let the original price of the dryer be x
after a 70%=0.70 reduction you purchase a dryer on sale for $240, so we have
x-0.70x=240
%281-0.70%29x=240
0.30x=240
x=240%2F0.30
x=800

the original price of the dryer was $800