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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
| 1951 AHSME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 7 |
Followed by Problem 9 | |
| 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 | ||
| All AHSME Problems and Solutions | ||
