Question

Delores bought a crib on sale for $350. The sale price was 40% of the original price. What was the original price of the crib?

Answer 1

Step 1. The information that we have is:

• The sale price of the crib was ,$350

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• This sale price represents ,40% ,of the original price.

Required: Find the original price of the crib.

Step 2. We know that $350 represents 40% of the original price, to find the original price we need to find the 100%.

In these cases, we use the following formula:

$\frac{A}{P}\times100$

Where A is the amount and P is the percentage it represents.

Step 3. The original price is given by:

$\frac{350}{40}\times100$

Solving the operations:

$\begin{gathered} 8.75\times100 \\ \downarrow \\ \boxed{875} \end{gathered}$

The original price was $875.

Answer: $875