2008 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 6

The following problem is from both the 2008 AMC 12A #6 and 2008 AMC 10A #8, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem

Heather compares the price of a new computer at two different stores. Store $A$ offers $15\%$ off the sticker price followed by a $$90$ rebate, and store $B$ offers $25\%$ off the same sticker price with no rebate. Heather saves $$15$ by buying the computer at store $A$ instead of store $B$ . What is the sticker price of the computer, in dollars?

$\mathrm{(A)}\ 750\qquad\mathrm{(B)}\ 900\qquad\mathrm{(C)}\ 1000\qquad\mathrm{(D)}\ 1050\qquad\mathrm{(E)}\ 1500$

Solution

Solution 1

Let the sticker price be $x$ .

The price of the computer is $0.85x-90$ at store $A$ and $0.75x$ at store $B$ .

Heather saves $$15$ at store $A$ , so $0.85x-90+15=0.75x$ .

Solving, we find $x=750$ , and thus the answer is $\mathrm{(A)}$ .

Solution 2

The $$ 90$ in store $A$ is $$ 15$ better than the additional $25\%-15\% = 10\%$ off at store $B$ .

Thus the $10\%$ off is equal to $$ 90$ - $$ 15$ $=$ $$ 75$ , and therefore the sticker price is $$ 750$ .

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