Question

Today only , a table is being sold at 34% discount. The sale price is $495. What was the price yesterday?

Answer 1

In the given problem, it is given that the table is sold at a discount of only one day and that is today. so the table would be have been sold at its original price yesterday. The discount given today is 34% and the sale price for today is $495.
Let us assume the price of the table yesterday = x
Then we can write the equation as
x = 295 * (100/34)
  = 29500/34
  = 867.64
So the selling price of the table yesterday was $867.64.