Question

a portable music player is on sale for 20% off its original price. The sale price is $96. What was the original price for the music player?

Answer 1

the original price was $120 because $96 is 80% of the original price so you do 96 divided by 8. This equals 12. You then add twelve to 96 twice and you get $120. You can then check it by doing 120 x 0.8

Answer 2

Ok (I haven't done this in a while), you're gonna want to divide 96 by 8. You get 12, multiply that by 10 and you get 120. Think of it sort of like fractions (if that helps at all).