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Sammie pays $30 for a bag that she buys at a discount of 50%. What is the price of the bag without the discount?

User Cmyers
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If paid $30 for a bag with the discount you would just time it by 2 (reverse what you did) And you would get 60. Sammie's bag would have been $60 without the discount. To check this you can do 60 divided by 2 (2 is half which is equivalent to 50%, which is half of 100) and you would get 30. I hope this helps/makes sense! 
User Nawroth
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it'd be $60, 50% is half so you double
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