Question

price of a car is lowered by 20% to 40000. What was the the original price of the car also find the reduction

Answer 1

let the original price be x
100% _20% =80%
40000×100/80
=50000
reduction =50000-40000
$10000 is the reduction
$50000 is the original price

Answer 2

50000 and 10000 are the correct answer