Question

A store is offering 40% off regular priced items. The amount of discount on an item is $6, What is the regular price of this item?
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Answer 1

The answer would be $15

All you need to do is multiply each one by .4 and see which one equals 6.

15 x .4 =6

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

To solve this problem:

The formula would be: New Value – Old Value)/Old Value] x 100 or in the form of variable it would be: [(B-A)/A] x 100 = Answer.

So plugging in the information given in our problem it would be:

6 – 40 / 40 x 100 = percent of change

6/40 x 100 = 15%

The answer is $15