Question

James buys a shirt and a pair of socks on sale for 25% off. if the price of the shirt before the sale was $24 and he spent a total of $24, what was the original price of the socks?

Answer 1

The price of the socks are $8

Answer 2

The original price of socks was $8.

Explanation:

James buys a shirt and a pair of socks on sale for 25% off.

The price of the shirt before the sale was $24 that means after discount the price was:

`24-(0.25*24)` = $18

And James paid a total of $24.

That means the price of socks after discount is =
`24-18` = $6

Let the original price of socks be x. And after 25% discount, it was for $6.

So,
`x-0.25x=6`

=>
`0.75x=6`

x = 8.

Hence, the original price of socks was $8.