Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

840.65$

731(1.15)=840.65