The original price of the DVD player purchased by south campus dormitory is $500.
Solution:
Given, South campus dormitory just purchased a new DVD player on sale for $375.
The sale price was 75% of the original price.
We have to find what was the original price Of the DVD player?
Now we know that, sale price = 75% of original price
Substituting the sales price value we get
375 = 75% of original price
[tex]\begin{array}{l}{375=\frac{75}{100} \times \text { original price }} \\\\ {\text { Original price }=375 \times \frac{100}{75}=5 \times 100=500}\end{array}[/tex]
Hence, the original price of the DVD player is $500.
