Question 289026: a dress was sold for 1500 after a discount of 25%. what was the original price of the dress? Found 3 solutions by mananth, ikleyn, Edwin McCravy:Answer by mananth(16949) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If the dress was sold at 100 the tag price = 125
the dress was sold at 1500 then taqg price =
125/100 * 1500
= 1875 is the original price.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
a dress was sold for 1500 after a discount of 25%. what was the original price of the dress?
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The logic of the solution in the post by @mananth is incorrect.
I came to bring a correct solution.
If the dress was sold for 1500 after a discount of 25%, it means that
0.75x = 1500,
where 'x' was the original price.
From this equation, we find
x = = 2000.
ANSWER. The original price was 2000 monetary units.
Or you can do it this way:
Let the original price be P.
Then the discount will be 25% of P, or 0.25P
We subtract the discount 0.25P from the original price P to get
the sale price 1500
P - 0.25P = 1500
1.00P - 0.25P = 1500
0.75P = 1500
P = 1500/0.75
P = 2000
Edwin
