Question

Nancy purchased some bed sheets for $ 36 they were on sale 25% off.What was the original price of the bed sheets?

Answer 1

25*4 =100 so if 25% is one of 4 parts of 100% than 36: 3 is 12 so that means that 12 is one of 3 parts of 36. So just add 12 to 36 to make it 4 parts 36+12=48 so originally they were 48$

Answer 2

Let

x-------> the original price of the bed sheets

we know that

Nancy purchased some bed sheets for $ $36$ they were on sale $25$% off

so

$100$%- $25$%= $75$%

$75$%=$0.75$

$0.75*x=36\\ x=36/0.75\\ x=48$

therefore

the answer is

the original price of the bed sheets was $$48$