Amy paid $62.18 for shoes during a 15% off sale. What was the regular price?
$71.51 is this correct?
62.18 = .85 x
x = 73.15
You take .15 off the ORIGINAL price, not add .15 * price to the FIMAL price
No, that is not correct. You can easily verify that 85% of 71.51 is not 62.18.
You apparently added 15% to 62.18.
The correct answer is 62.18/0.85 = ??, which is a bigger number that yours
Thank you sooo much!
To determine the regular price of the shoes, we can use the information given. Amy paid $62.18 during a 15% off sale.
Let's solve for the regular price using the formula:
Regular Price = Sale Price / (1 - Discount Percentage)
In this case, the sale price is $62.18 and the discount percentage is 15%.
Using the formula, we can calculate the regular price:
Regular Price = $62.18 / (1 - 0.15)
Regular Price = $62.18 / 0.85
Regular Price = $73.04 (rounded to two decimal places)
Therefore, the regular price of the shoes was $73.04, not $71.51.