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Gas grills are on sale 20% off. The sale price of the grill that I like is $399.20. What was the original price of the grill?

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Answer:

499

Ste-by-step explanation

80 percent of the original price is left.

If you divide by 4 you get 99.8 which is 20% of the original price. Then if you multiply 99.8 by 5 you will get 100% of the original price which is 499

You can also do 399.2 * 1.25 = 499

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