Question

Ray purchased a jacket with 60% discount, for $240. how would you calculate price before a sale?

Answer 1

$400

Explanation:

We will make this question into a function by setting 'p' as the initial price before sale and converting the percent to a decimal (60*0.01).

Because the final price was calculated by multiplying the initial price by 60%, we can represent that with the function:

0.6p=240

All we need to do now is isolate p by dividing out 0.6.

p=400

Giving us an answer of $400 (that's an expensive jacket )

Answer 2

A (original cost of the jacket) x 60% = 240
240/ 60% = A