Question

jacob is planning to go black friday shopping he found a deal on laptop for 40%off the original price if the sale price is 525 what is the original price

Answer 1

$1,312.50

Explanation:

you can set up a proportion for this question or do it with an equation,,,

525×100= 52500 then divide by 40 and you get the original amount before 40% was cut off

Answer 2

The original price of the laptop is 875

Explanation:

Given:

Sale price of the laptop= 525

discount percent on the laptop price =40%

To find:

Original price of the laptop=?

Solution:

Let the original price of laptop = x

Then ,

sales price= original price - discount amount

Substituting the values

525=x-40%of x

`525=x-(40*(1)/(100))* x`

`525=x-((40)/(100))* x`

`525=x-(0.4)* x`

`525= x-0.4x`

`0.6x=525`

`x=(525)/(0.6)`= 875