Question

July bought a coat for 30% more than the price she wanted to pay. if she paid $250, how much was she looking to pay?

Answer 1

This is the concept of financial mathematics, the amount that July was looking to pay will be found as follows;
Buying price =$250
let the amount July was looking to buy be x
let the percentage amount be 100-30=70%
percentage buying price be 100%
thus the value of x was:
x=70/100*250
x=$175
the answer is x=$175