Question

During a sale, a store offered a 30% discount on a camera that originally sold for $810. After the sale, the discounted price of the camera was marked up by 30%. To the nearest whole number, what percent of the original price was the price after markup?

Answer 1

The final price is 91% of the original price, so 91% is your answer

Answer 2

Start with with original price and find 30% of that price:

    30% of 810: (0.30)(810) = 243

Now take that 30% away:

   810 - 243 = 567

That's the sale price: $567

Find 30% of the sale price:

    30% of 567: (0.30)(567) = 170.10

Now add that 30% on to the sale price:

   567 + 1701.0 = 737.10

The final price described is $737.10.

Now we need to relate that final price to the original price:

   737.10 ÷ 810 = 0.91

This means that the final price is 91% of the original price.