Question

Using Coupons, you spend $120 grocery shopping. This is 80% of the total retail price of the groceries. How much would you have spent if you had not used the coupons?

Answer 1

To answer this you have 2 options.

1. Write an equation and solve for the retail value or

2. Write a proportion using 80%.

Either strategy results in a answer of $150 for the retail value.