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At a sale this week, a sofa is being sold for $731. This is a 15% discount from the original price. What is the original price?
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At a sale this week, a sofa is being sold for $731. This is a 15% discount from the original price.

What is the original price?

User Pierre Poliakoff
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we would do the given price
731 x 0.15 and then we get 109.65 this is the amount added to our original number

We take 109.65 + 731 and then we get 840.65 this is how much the couch originally costed.
User Jems
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840.65$

731(1.15)=840.65
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