Question

The dress store is having a sale where all merchandise is 1/4 off. A women buys $36 of merchandise at the sale price. Q: What would she have had to pay at the regular price?

Answer 1

You can convert the fraction to a decimal (.25) and realize that this is 25%

Do you know the next step?

Answer 2

Divide?

Answer 3

you know that 25% off of some unknown price X is 36
The way I'd write this down is 36=.75x and divide by .75

Answer 4

So divide 36 by .75?

Answer 5

I think there are other ways of approaching but yeah, that's how I'd solve it.

Answer 6

So the answer is 48?

Answer 7

Yes. Also it's important to check your answers when time allows for it.

Do you know how you'd check?

Answer 8

No :/

Answer 9

Don't get down on yourself. I'll gladly step you through every step :D

We'd go back to the original problem. It says that 1/4 off of some clothes a woman bought was $36. We can multiply the answer we got by 1/4 or .25 to get the discount and then subtract

Answer 10

Okay