Question

A store has a 40\%40%40, percent off sale on headphones. With this discount, the price of one pair of headphones is \$36$36dollar sign, 36.

What is the original price of the pair of headphones?

Answer 1

Put it in an equation;
it is given that 36 is the price after the 40% discount, so;
36=X*40%
X here is the original price
36=X*(40/100)
40X=3600
X=90$
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

$60.

Explanation:

Let x be the original price of the pair of headphones.

We have been given that a store has a 40% off sale on headphones. This means that price of headphones after the sales would be 60% (100-40) of x.

We are also told that with the discount, the price of one pair of headphones is $36.

We can represent this information is an equation as:

`(60)/(100)x=\$36`

`0.6x=\$36`

`(0.6x)/(0.6)=(\$36)/(0.6)`

`x=\$60`

Therefore, the original price of the pair of headphones is $60.