Question

A store is having a 20%-off sale on all merchandise.If mai buys one item and saves $13, what was the original price of her purchase ?

Answer 1

Explanation:

65

13 divided by 20 and times 100

Answer 2

The correct answer is $65

Explanation:

We are asked to give the original price of an item that saved $13, meaning with a 20% discount.

Notice that the 20% represents 1/5 of the original price. A simple calculation to get the original price is

`13*(original percentage)/(discount percentage)`

and, if we replace every value, we get

`13*(100)/(20)=65`

wich is the correct answer.