At an appliance store, the price of a refrigerator is marked up 25% to $406.25.
what was the price of the refrigerator before the markup?
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We need 25% of the original price before it can be added. The equation for this would be
X + .25X = 406.25
The x stands for the 100% and the .25x stands for the markup of the original.
1.25x = 406.25
X= $325.00

So the first thing we do is to multiply the top equation by 3. the reason i want to do this is i notice there will be a 6y on both equations and can possibly add/subtract them. so we get 6y = -3x + 27. adding that and the second equation we get 6x = 27-15 which is 12. divide by 6 and we get 2. ∴ x = 2. substituting 2 into the first equation we get 2y = -2 + 9 which is 7. divide by 2 and we get 7/2. ∴ y = 7/2, x = 2.

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