Question

A box of icecream bars cost $1.50 after a 25% discount. What was the original price of the box of ice cream bars?

Answer 1

The answer is 6 dollars, because we divide to cancel out the discount.
1.25/.25=6

Answer 2

The answer is 2 because you are taking the discounted price and multiplying it by the original price to get your answer to this problem.

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