WAEC 2020 · Paper 1 · Q46

A woman received a discount of $20\%$ on a piece of cloth she purchased from a shop. If she paid $525.00, what was the original price?

Worked solution (try it first)

A $20\%$ discount means she paid $80\%$ of the original price $P$ : $0.8P = 525$ .
Divide both sides by 0.8: $P = 656.25$ .
So the original price was $656.25, option C.