Question 4645
Look at the "lessons" on this site. Once there, look for percentages. Anyway...


Let original price be x. It is this that is reduced by 25% to give a sale price of $36.


So, what is 25% of x? since we have to find this and then take it away from x.


25% means "25 percent" ie "25 out of 100" ie 25/100.
Of means multiply...so: 25% of x is (25/100)*x --> 0.25x


Now we have to take this away from the original price (x), so we get x-0.25x and this now equals 36.


x-0.25x=36
0.75x = 36
x = 36/0.75
x = 48


So, the answer is $48.


jon.