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the price of an item has been reduced by $1.29 the new sale price is $48.62 what was the original price

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The sale price is obtained by substract the reduced price from the original price, or original price is equal to sum of sale price and reduced price.

Determine the original price of an item.


\begin{gathered} \text{Original price=48.62+1.29} \\ =49.91 \end{gathered}

So answer is $49.91.

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