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A ring is now reduced to 840 saving 40% of orignal price what is orignal price

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The multiplier for decreasing by 40% is 0.60. Since we want to know what was reduced by 40% (0.60), we divide the new price by the multiplier:

840 / 0.6 = 1,400

So the original price was 1,400
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