math question
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- trooperbill
If i have a sale price that is 25% of the original price but i dont have the original price fugure how do i find the original price?
Im sure its not as simple as multiplying it by 1.25 as this would be an addition of 25% of the sale price not a reduction of 25% from the original???
help my brain is frizzled
- Nematoth0
multiply sale price by 4/3
- trooperbill0
so divide by 3 times by 4?
- Nematoth0
divide by 3 then multiply by 4 is the same as multiply by 4/3
- told u my brain wasnt working lol.trooperbill
- ur beginning to fry mine too.. It's 6pm here. and time to head home for a bit of COD MW2!Nematoth
- mrghost0
why are you doing math? shouldnt you have a hangover?
- was still pissed this morning... hangover should hit around 6pm loltrooperbill
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- Jordy0
Situation 1:
You take 25% off the price so the new price is 75%.
How to calculate the old price?Let's say the new price is: 150
Divide this by 3, which makes 50
Multiply by 4 which makes 200
The "old" price is 200Situation two:
The price is 25% of what it used to be. In other words, 75% has been deducted.
Let's say the 25% represents 50
The "new price" (100%) equals 4 times the 25%. In other words, 4 times 50, which makes 200.
The "old price" is 200.Wasn't that hard was it?
- Pixter0
discounted = original multiplied by .25
original = discounted divided by .75
- locustsloth0
x=original price
y= sale pricex-(x * .25)=y
plug in your sale price, solve for x