Question

Mrs. Goyal has to pay $4\%$ sales tax in addition to the price if a certain article. Find the price of her article, if she pays $Rs.260$ in all?

Answer 1

Let the price of the article be $Rs.x$. Then,

$x+4\%ofx=260$

$x+\frac{4}{100}x=260$

$x+\frac{x}{25}=260$

$26x=260\times 25$

$x=10\times 25$

$x=250$

Thus, the price of the article is $Rs.250$.