Question 7543: he sales price of a car is $12,590, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price? Answer by bonster(299) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Since we know that $12,590 is 20% off of the original price, we know that $12,590 is 80% of the original price.
Look at this problem as one of those "n is __% of what number?" problems.
then it becomes 12,590 is 80% of the original price,"X"