Question

A sofa is on sale for $333, which is 74% of the regular price. What is the regular price?

Answer 1

let x be the orig price

0.74x = 333
x = 333/0.74

Answer 2

so let the original price be 'x'
so,
74% of x = 333

74% ---> 74/100
'of' ---> means 'multiplied by'

so your whole equation transforms to:

74
--- * x = 333
100


Can you solve this simple equation now?