Question

The price of a car is lowered by $20\%$ to $Rs.40,000$. What was the original price?

Answer 1

Given the price of a car is lowered by $20\%$ to $Rs.40,000$.

So by the problem,

if the present price of the car is Rs. $80$ then its original price was Rs. $100$.

So if the present price of the car is $40,000$ then the original price was $\frac{100}{80}\times 40,000=50,000$.

So the original price of the car is Rs. $50,000$.