Question

John paid $40 for a shirt that represents a discount of 25%. What was the original price for the shirt?

Answer 1

Answer:

$\text{ \ 53.33}$

Explanation:

Here, we want to get the original price of the shirt

If the discount on the shirt is 25%, this means what he paid was 75% of the actual

Let the actual cost be $x

Mathematically:

$\begin{gathered} 75\text{ \% of \ x = \ 40} \\ \frac{75}{100}\times\text{ x = 40} \\ \\ 75x\text{ = 40 }\times\text{ 100} \\ x\text{ = }\frac{4000}{75} \\ x\text{ = \ 53.33} \end{gathered}$