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The price of a computer is reduced by 17.5%

The reduced is £264

By how much is the price reduced

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The original price is 1512
User MaTriXy
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Answer:

To find out by how much the price was reduced, we can use the following equation:

price reduction = original price * reduction percentage

We know that the price reduction is £264 and the reduction percentage is 17.5%, so we can plug those values into the equation to get:

price reduction = £264 / 17.5%

To solve this equation, we need to express the percentage as a decimal. We can do this by dividing the percentage by 100:

price reduction = £264 / (17.5 / 100)

This simplifies to:

price reduction = £264 / 0.175

Solving this equation gives us a price reduction of £1512.

So, the original price was reduced by £1512.

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