{"id":230024,"date":"2025-06-08T18:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=230024"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:23:39","slug":"kisha-saved-12-00-when-buying-a-coat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/08\/kisha-saved-12-00-when-buying-a-coat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisha saved $12.00 when buying a coat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kisha saved $12.00 when buying a coat. The coat was on sale for 30% off. What was the original price of the coat?<br>Kisha saved $12.00 when buying a coat. The coat was on sale for 30% off. What was the original price of the coat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find the <strong>original price<\/strong> of the coat, we are told two key pieces of information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kisha <strong>saved $12.00<\/strong>,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The coat was <strong>30% off<\/strong> the original price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s call the <strong>original price<\/strong> of the coat <strong>x<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the coat was on sale for <strong>30% off<\/strong>, Kisha saved 30% of the original price. That means:0.30x=120.30x = 120.30x=12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find the original price (<strong>x<\/strong>), divide both sides of the equation by 0.30:x=120.30=40x = \\frac{12}{0.30} = 40x=0.3012\u200b=40<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, <strong>the original price of the coat was $40.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This problem is about calculating the original price of an item when you know how much money was saved due to a discount. Kisha saved $12 when she bought a coat that was on sale for 30% off the original price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are told she saved $12. That means the $12 represents <strong>30% of the original price<\/strong>. This is a percent problem, and such problems are usually solved using proportions or basic algebra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s break this down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The discount is 30%, which means the customer pays <strong>70% of the original price<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But since we are given the <strong>amount saved<\/strong>, not the sale price, we focus directly on the 30%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If we say the original price is <strong>x<\/strong>, then 30% of x is written as <strong>0.30x<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are told that this 30% equals $12. So the equation is: 0.30x=120.30x = 120.30x=12<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Solving for x, divide both sides by 0.30: x=120.30=40x = \\frac{12}{0.30} = 40x=0.3012\u200b=40<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This tells us the coat originally cost $40. After applying a 30% discount (which is $12), the final sale price would be $40 \u2212 $12 = $28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding how percentages relate to whole numbers is key in everyday math. Whether you\u2019re shopping, budgeting, or comparing prices, being able to work backward from a discount to the original price helps make informed decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner4-716.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-230025\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisha saved $12.00 when buying a coat. The coat was on sale for 30% off. What was the original price of the coat?Kisha saved $12.00 when buying a coat. The coat was on sale for 30% off. What was the original price of the coat The Correct Answer and Explanation is: To find the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}