Question

The price of a computer was $1,200 after applying a 20% discount. What was the original price of the computer?
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Answer 1

Answer:

The original price of computer was $1500.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

The price of a computer was $1,200 after applying a 20% discount.

Now, to get the original price of the computer.

Let the original price be $x$.

As given discount is 20%.

So, the price after discount = $1200.

Thus, $1200 is 80% of the price of computer. (100% - 20% = 80%.)

So, $1200 is equivalent to 80%.

And, $x$ is equivalent to 100%.

Now, by using cross multiplication we get the original price of computer:

⇒  $\frac{1200}{80} =\frac{x}{100}$

⇒  $120000=80x$

Dividing both sides by 80 we get:

⇒  $1500=x$

Therefore, the original price of computer was $1500.