Question

A department store offered a 15% discount off the regular price of a shirt. The amount of the discount is $3. What is the regular price of the shirt?

Answer 1

You will pay $12 for a item with original price of $15 when discounted 20%. In this example, if you buy an item at $15 with 20% discount, you will pay 15 - 3 = 12 dollars.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: $3.53

Step-by-step explanation: 15 percent off can be thought of as 85% of the original value because 100-15 is 85. this means that if x is the value of the original shirt, .85x=3

divide by .85

x=3.5294

which is about $3.53