The statement indicates that Robert paid $25 for a fan and that it had a 30% discount. To be able to determine the original price, you have to divide the the price with the discount by the result of 1 minus the discount.
Original price= 25/(1-0.3)
Original price= 25/0.7
Original price= 35.71
According to this, the answer is that the original price of the fan is $35.71.