At a sale this week, a suit is being sold for $224 . This is 35% of the original price.
What is the original price?

Question

At a sale this week, a suit is being sold for $224  . This is 35%  of the original price.
What is the original price?

anonymous · Answer

if you get 35% off you pay 65% of the price. you don't know what the original price is, but you know that 
$$.65P=224$$ so solve via 
$$P=224\div .65$$

anonymous · Answer

actually the answer is not $640 
but you can find it by dividing with a calculator

anonymous · Answer

im confused is the answer 344.615?

anonymous · Answer

Come on cspyder90! Don't you see that this is the same problem that you posted just a couple of minutes ago? The suit is again selling for about 1/3 of the regular price. If you had understood that the original price of the table in previous question was about 3 times what was actually paid, then you would have understood that the original price of this suit was about 3 times what was actually paid.

anonymous · Answer

Just one more follow up. Luis suggests that the answer is 640 but satellite73 suggests $344.17 (rounded to the nearest cent). I claim the original price should be close to 3 times the sale price. Luis' precise answer meshes well with my rough estimate while satellite73's answer doesn't match up at all. So I go with Luis.