Question

A pair of shoes was on sale for thirty percent off. The total savings was thirteen dollars and fifty cents . What was the original price?

nineteen dollars and twenty-nine cents

thirty-two dollars and seventy-nine cents

thirty-one dollars and fifty cents

forty-five dollars

Answer 1

none of them are right

Answer 2

They have to be

Answer 3

$13.50 is 30% of the original price.
Therefore the original price is 13.5/0.3 = ?

Answer 4

sorry i did 35% hold on

Answer 5

it is 45 dollars