Question

Your friend gave you a gift card for your birthday. You use it to buy a DVD for $15. The gift card balance shown on the receipt after the purchase is $45. What was the original value of the gift card?

Answer 1

the value was $60 because u got to add that 45 to the 15 and that's the answer

Answer 2

The total amount of the gift card is the amount left on it plus anything that has been spent so far. So in your problem...

Total original value = 45 + 15 = $60

Another way to look at it would be that you started out with a certain amount of dollars (let's call it x) and subtracted 15 dollars and now you have 45...

x - 15 = 45
x = 45 + 15
x = $60