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Problem
The price of an article is cut 
To restore it to its former value, the new price must be increased by:
Solution
Without loss of generality, let the price of the article be 100. Thus, the new price is 
. Then, to restore it to the original price, we solve 
. We find 
, thus, the percent increase is 
.
See Also
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