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Find the sale price to the nearest cent.5. The sale price of a video game that has beendiscounted 40% is $15.48. What was the originalprice of the video game?

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The discount is 40 %

After discount the price is 15.48

Let x be the original price, we have,


\begin{gathered} x-x*(40)/(100)=15.48 \\ x-.4x=15.48 \\ \\ 0.6x=15.48 \\ x=(15.48)/(0.6)=25.8 \end{gathered}

Thus, the original price is 25.8.

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