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After the increase the price of a rail season ticket from brighton to london was 2828.80 work out the price before this increase

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Answer:

2720

Explanation:

Given that,

Price of the ticket = 2828.80

To find,

The price before the increase = ?

Procedure:

Let the price before the increase be x

so,

x(100% + 4%) = 2828.80

⇒ 1.04x = 2828.80

⇒ x = 2828.80 ÷ 1.04

∵ x = 2720

Thus, the price before the increase was 2720.

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