Proportional relationships - HiSET

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An electronics store is having a sale and offering off the regular prices of all laptop computers. If the sale price for a certain laptop is , what is the regular price of the laptop?

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Answer

Notice that is the price after the discount. Therefore, the sale price of is of the regular price (or times the regular price). The regular price can be represented as , or times the regular price.

First, set up a proportion describing the problem, using to represent the unknown quantity, the regular price:

Next, cross multiply:

Finally, divide both sides by to solve for :

Therefore, the regular price is .

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