Dominic bought a new alarm clock that was on sale for $18.75. if this price represents a 30% discount from the original price. w

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denis-greek [22]

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Dominic bought a new alarm clock that was on sale for $18.75. if this price represents a 30% discount from the original price. w

hat is the original price to the
nearest cent?

Mathematics

1 answer:

fredd [130] · Answer 1 · 2023-05-18T06:41:59+03:00

So here you are trying to find out what times .30 (30%) subtracted the original price will give you 18.75. Because it is 30% discount you want to use 70% (.7) so that you can find the price before not the price after.

so .7(x) = 18.75

Which you then divide and then get 26.79 dollars.