Dress For Sale

Algebra Level 1

A dress was sold for $ 1500 1500 after a discount of 25 25 %. What was the original price of the dress?


The answer is 2000.

Arsalan Ali by Arsalan Ali , 25, Pakistan

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

3 solutions

John M.
May 8, 2015

Was the dress white & gold by any chance?

Either way, a discount of 25% implies the dress is at 75% its original cost. Or, if we were to take the original price, we would have to multiply it by 0.75 0.75 to get the discount. To get the original price, we undo the multiplication by dividing by 0.75 0.75 :

$ 1 , 500 0.75 = $ 2000 \frac{\$1,500}{0.75}=\$2000

0 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused
Sheila Palagtiw
Jul 31, 2014

Let X = dress' original price:..... x(25%) or 0.25X = the discount at 25%;....... $1500 = the discounted price:.....

X - 0.25X = $1500:...... 0.75X = $1500 :..... X = 2000

$2000 is the original price of the dress

0 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused
Lenard Arceo
Jun 28, 2014

Since 25% is the discount, so the original price and the discount is subtracted to each other, so the total price is 100%, subtract 100% and 25% and you will get 75%, then divide 1500 and 75% means that 1500/.75 then you will get 2000

0 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...