Question

A store sold a case of scented candles for $17.85 that had been marked up 110%. What was the original price?

Answer 1

17.83 times 1.1
=19.613
17.83+19.613
=37.443
=37.5 dollars

Answer 2

Your original price would have been $16.23

Take the new markup price and divide it by the percent it was marked up

17.85 / 1.10 = 16.227

1.10 represents 110%

Round your ending number because there are only two place holders after the decimal for calculating prices. By doing this we change $16.227 to $16.23.