Question

Today only, a table is being sold at a 65% discount. The sale price is $203.00.What was the price yesterday?

Answer 1

$580

Explanations:

The formula to calculate the price yesterday is expressed as:

`Price\text{ yesterday}=\frac{Sale\text{ price}}{1-\%discount}`

Given the following parameters

Sale price = $203

Percent discount = 65% = 0.65

Substitute

`\begin{gathered} Price\text{ }yesterday=(203)/(1-0.65) \\ Price\text{ }yesterday=(203)/(0.35) \\ Price\text{ }yesterday=\$580 \end{gathered}`

Hence the price yesterday was $580