If a bloke paid $32'000 for a car after he got a 20% discount , then how much was the origanal price ?

100% - 20% = 80%

80% is the same as 4/5th's

80 divided by 4 = 20

32,000 divided by 4 = 8000

20% = 8000

32'000 + 20%(8000) = 40'000

I thought if you couldnt do this by yourself then "joy's" way of doing it might confuse you a little bit...

By the way im 15 (aiming to be an accountant)

Don't get the pool. First of all, a pool costs way more than $20,000. You never get the full value out of it when you sell the house and it is expensive and time consuming to maintain. I would say pay off your cars, but then you are already making those payments. If you weren't making those payments would you put the equivalent into savings? Probably not. So keep the payments so you don't waste the money you would have if you didn't have the payments. (I hope you understood that). I would definitely save the money, but you sound like you have a hole in your pocket and want to spend, so if you are going to spend, pay off one of your cars. (the one with the higher interest rate). With the money you normally pay on your car, you could join a gym or ymca with a pool! lol Good luck, and research the pool thing. My brother bought an inground pool and it was $80,000. Even 1/2 price is way more than you are talking about. Pools are very expensive. Good luck.

cross multiplication proportions formula.

cross multiplication for short.

where A/ B = C/ D

A x D = B x C

80% is to 100% AS $32,000 is to $original price,

In the form of an equation

80/ 100 = 32,000/ x

Cross multiply

80 (x) = (100) 32,000

80x = 3,200,000

Dividing both sides by 80 we have...

x = $40,000 = 100% original price

Let the original price be $100X

20% discount means you pay $80X

80X = 32,000

100X = 100 /80 x 32000 = $40,000 ANSWER

let original price be x

then 20% discount on x resulted as32000

x-20/100*x=32000

4/5x=32000

x=32000*5/4

x=40000

let the original price is "x"

he got a discount of 20%

therefore we have x-(0.2*x)=32000

0.8x=32000

x=40000

100% - 20% = 80%

80% = 0.8

32,000 = 0.8x

x = 32,000/0.8 =$40,000

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80%_____________$32 000

20%_____________$8 000

100%____________$40 000_______original price

$40,000.00.