Question

A store is discounting all of it's stock. the original price of a pair of sunglasses was $44.95. the sale price is $26.97. at this discount what was the original price of a bathing suit that has a sale price of $28.95

Answer 1

The first thing you should do to solve this problem is to know how much was the discount of the sunglasses.
 We have then:
 44.95 $ ---> 100%
 26.97 $ ---> x
 Clearing x:
 x = (26.97 / 44.95) * 100 = 60%
 therefore, the discount is
 100-60 = 40%.
 Then, the original price of the swimsuit will be
 (28.95 $) * (1 + 0.40) = 40.53 $
 answer:
 the original price of a bathing suit that has a sale price of $ 28.95 is $ 40.53