1954 AHSME Problems/Problem 7
Problem 7
A housewife saved in buying a dress on sale. If she spent
for the dress, she saved about:
Solution
Since she saved and spent
, the original price of the dress was
. The percent saved can be modeled as
, so the answer is
or
, approximately $9% \implies \textbf{(B)}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)