Question

A suit was marked with a 30% discount.If the discount is $42.00, what was the original price of the suit?

Answer 1

Given:

$\begin{gathered} discount=\text{ \ 42.00} \\ \text{percentage discount = 30 \%} \end{gathered}$

Let X represents the Original price of the suit, then it can be seen that

$\begin{gathered} 30\text{ \% of X = discount} \\ \frac{30}{100}\times X=42 \\ \frac{30X}{100}=42 \\ \text{cross mltiply} \\ 30X=42\times100 \\ 30X=4200 \\ X=\frac{4200}{30} \\ X=140 \end{gathered}$

Hence, the original price is $140