Question

The sale price of a volley at a discount of 40% is $18. What was its original price?

Answer 1

$45?

Answer 2

nope 30

Answer 3

30 is the answer

Answer 4

you could check for yourself

Answer 5

40 percent of 30 is 12 and 30-12=18 so 30 is the answer :D

Answer 6

.6x=18
x=18/.6

Answer 7

18/.6 is 30

Answer 8

QWhere you get .6?

Answer 9

(1-.4)=.6

Answer 10

so let x be the original price of the product, now we know that if we discount. that means we subtract 40 percent of the original price, we will have 18. so if we write these in an equation.

x-40%x=18

now 40 per cent means 40/100 (cent is 100 right?)
40%=40/100=.4
so:
x-.4x=18
by distributive property
x(1-.4)=18
now 1-.4 is .6 so
x(.6)=18
x=18/.6
x=30 :D