The Wagner school store is having a sale! At the sale this week, a life sized stuffed animal of Wagner’s mascot is being sold for $158.40. This is a 52% discount of the original price. What is the original price? If necessary, round to the nearest cent.

$330

Step-by-step explanation:

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☆ There is no need to round the answer off to the nearest cents as the answer is a whole number.

for this case we have the following expression:

to solve, we rewrite the expression as:

we apply double c and we have:

thus, the quotient is 48.

so, patel found a wrong ratio and the multiplication was incorrect.

option d