Question

A store reduces the price of a jacket by 40%. The sale price of the jacket is marked as $30. What percent of the original price is the sale price? What was the original price of a jacket?

Answer 1

-60%

-$50

Explanation:

As the statement says that the price of the jacket was reduced by 40%, to determine the percent that the sale price represents from the original price, you have to subtract 40% from 100% that represents the original price:

100%-40%= 60%

This means that $30 represents 60% of the original price.

-To determine the original price of the jacket, you can use the rule of three:

$30 → 60%

x ← 100%

x=(100*30)/60= 50

According to this, the original price of a jacket was $50.