Question

A t-shirt increased in price by 14. After the increase it was priced at £30. What was the original price of the t-shirt?

Answer 1

Either £16 or £26.32 depending on what you meant in the question

Explanation:

I'm going to answer the question in 2 ways, since I'm not sure if you mean £14 or 14%

If its £14, then the original price is 30-14 = £16

If its 14% then that means after the increase, the shirt will be 100%+14% of the original price or 114% of the original price.

This means that

£30 = 114%

To make it easier, reduce the 114% to 1 %

1% = 30/114

1% = £0.26316

100% = £26.32 (rounded to 2 decimal places)

Therefore the original price was £26.32

Answer 2

So the increased price is 30 and it was increased by 14
So the cost before was 30 - 14 = 16