A bottle of hand hand lotion is on sale for $2.25. If this price represents a 50% discount from the original price, what is the original price to the nearest cent?

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Aimee Hogan

Mathematics

11 January, 22:42

A bottle of hand hand lotion is on sale for $2.25. If this price represents a 50% discount from the original price, what is the original price to the nearest cent?

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Melvin Townsend · Answer 1

The original price would be $5.00 because since 2.25 is the 50% discount price, you'd multiply 2.25 by 2, and 4.50 would be the exact price, but since it's to the nearest cent, it would be $5.00.

Beetle · Answer 2

50% is basically half. So if you double the price ($2.25) x 2 you will have your answer.