Question

A store is discounting all of its stocks. The original price of sunglasses was $44.95. The sales price is 26.97. At this dicount what was the original price of a of a bathing suit that has a sales price of 28.95?

Answer 1

First, you need to calculate the percent off the sunglasses. So divide 26.97 onto 44.95, this will tell you the percent of how much it was costed. Then subtract that percentage from 100% to get the discounted percentage.

Now use the formula;

x = original price of the Bathing suit 

x divided by the percent discount of the sale = 28.95 
then use algebra to solve for x.