Question

How do i do this? it is very confusing
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Answer 1

Originally, it was 222.85

Explanation:

In order to know how much the new price of something is off, you multiply. for example if toothbrushes are normally $5 and they are having 5% off, you do 5 times 0.5 and it tells you the new price.

so, i used division in this problem to get the original price of this.

so i did 78 divided by 0.35. and I get 222.85.

Answer 2

£120

Explanation:

We are given the price of the phone when it is 35% off: $78.

This means that 65% of the original price is equal to £78.

Let's call the original price 'x'.

65% of x is 78. Since percentages of numbers are found by multipling the number by the percentage/decimal, we can write this mathematically as

0.65x=78

Dividing both sides by 0.65, we get

x=120