The final price of 25%-off item was $55.64. What was....

[cathysthree]

I am having trouble on these word problems with percentages. Can you please help me?

The final price of an item on sale for 25% off was $55.64. The sales tax rate was 6%. What was the original price?

Please show me how to solve this...
Thanks...

 

[tkhunny]

These are all very similar. Show us your work following the example of the first.

 

[cathysthree]

algebra

Thank you for your reply. Okay I have been working on these and here is my work. I realized I should take it by 75% instead of 25%.

First I take $55.64*.06=3.34, I subtract this tax, which equals $52.30.


75/100=52.30/x =

75x=5230

5230/75=69.73

The original price of the item was $69.30.
I think this is correct, please let me know if it is not.

Thank you so much for your help...I really appreciate it

 

[stapel]

The original price of the item was $69.30. I think this is correct....

If you are not sure, plug your answer back into the original exercise, and see if it works. Assuming the original price was $69.30, what was the sale price? How much were the taxes? What was the total? Does this match the given value?

Eliz.

 

[cathysthree]

algebra

Thank you very much...I caught my mistake...I wrote the answer down wrong it is $69.73 and it does work when I plug them all back into the original equation.