Question

A store has a 25%, percent off sale on coats. With this discount, the price of one coat is $34.50. What is the original price of the coat?

Answer 1

Let the original price of the coat is x. We know that there is 25% sale. We have been given that the price of coat after discount is $34.50.

We need to figure out the original price of coat, that is, the value of x.

We can set up an equation as shown below:

x - 25% of x = $34.50.

$x-0.25x=34.50\\0.75x=34.50\\x=\frac{34.50}{0.75}=\ 46$

Therefore, the original price of coat is 46 dollars.