The value of a house has increased by 5% the house is now valued at £609000 what is the value of the house before the increase? I found a post that answered the question but it didn't explain how they got the answer.

Find an equation for the linear function which has slope -10 and x-intercept -7

Acomputer store bought a program at a cost of $10 and sold it for $13. find the percent markup

Needmax recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.