need help with percentage

RHONNIE

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Please help me with this.

If you buy a dress for $52.25 after a 45% discount, what would be the original price of the dress.

Need your help.
 
1) Pick a variable for the original price.

2) In terms of this variable, write an expression for "45% of" the original price.

3) Subtract the discount (your expression in (2)) from the variable.

4) Set your difference from (3) equal to the discounted price.

5) Solve for the variable.

Eliz.

P.S. Please post any future algebra exercises to one of the "algebra" categories. Thank you.
 
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