Question

HELP
A suit is on sale for 28%
off. The sale price is $594.
What is the regular price?

Answer 1

Here you need to do the opposite of what we did last time: we need to convert 28% to a decimal fraction or proper fraction.

Last time we MULTIPLIED 0.8 by 100%.

Here, we DIVIDE 28% by 100%. What's your result?

Let x represent the regular (non-sale) price. Then multiply this by your most recent result and set the result equal to $594. How would you then find x?

x is the dollar amount of the full retail price, and is what you want.

Answer 2

im a bit confused @mathmale its 0.28?

Answer 3

0.28 = 28 %

Answer 4

im confused then

Answer 5

why?

Answer 6

idk the answer

Answer 7

this is my last question and idk how to do this

Answer 8

think in fractions

Answer 9

i know but now what?

Answer 10

create an equation to solve for the regular price

Answer 11

fill in the fraction with known variables

Answer 12

what is your sale price?

Answer 13

594

Answer 14

so replace sale price with 594

Answer 15

then?

Answer 16

you already know percent to decimal is 0.28 so replace that fraction with 0.28

Answer 17

i divided 594/0.28 theres alot of numbers

Answer 18

dollars so round to the nearest hundredth

Answer 19

2121.42857142

Answer 20

round to 2121.43$ dollars

Answer 21

thats the answer?

Answer 22

that seems too big from looking at the sale price

Answer 23

test it using the fractions but solve for sale price

Answer 24

Yes, test your result. What is 28% of $2121? Subtract that result from $2121. Is your result $594?

Answer 25

yea.

Answer 26

2121.43 right?

Answer 27

instead of using 0.28 use 0.72

Answer 28

because you're paying 72% of the price

Answer 29

Sorry, but after doing this problem myself, I must disagree with you.

$2121 is far too great a price to be the correct answer.

Note that if you take 28% of that, you get $594. But 28% represents the DISCOUNT.

The sale price would be $2121-$594=$1527. Not so.

Again I ask you to let x represent the full price of the item.

The item is discounted 28%, so the discount is 0.28x.

Then the sale price is 1.00x - 0.28x = 0.72x, and this equals $594.

Try again. Find x. It's not $2121.

Answer 30

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instead of using 0.28 use 0.72" Good suggestion.

Sale price is 0.72x=$594. Solve this for x, the original price.