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Store is having a sale where winter clothes are 60% of the original price. A sweater on sale for $30. What was the original price of the sweater?

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Dec 5, 2016

I got: #$50#

Explanation:

Call the original price #$x# and use fractions to say that:
#(100%)/(60%)=($x)/($30)#
rearrange:
#$x=(100cancel(%))/(60cancel(%))*($30)=$50#

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