Given:
Mara put down 7.5% on the purchase of her new home.
She put down $14.175.
To find:
The purchase price of the home.
Solution:
Let x be the purchase price of the home.
According to the question,
Put down = 7.5% of the purchase price of the home.
Divide both sides by 0.075.
Therefore, the purchase price of the home is $189.