How to Calculate the List Price of an Item on Sale_Finance and Business_Common Sense of Life

Method 1 Method 1 of 3: Calculating the List Price

1 Assess what information you know. In order to calculate the list price, or the original price, of an item on sale, you need to know what the sale price is, and what the discount percent is.
- For example, you might know that a sweater is on sale for $51.75 after a 25% discount.
2 Convert the discount percent to a decimal. Remember that percents are hundredths, so to convert, either divide the percent by 100, or simply place a decimal after the number and move it two places to the left.
- For example, 25% expressed as a decimal is .25.
3 Set up an equation for finding the original price of a discounted item. Use the formula $</annotation></semantics></math> equals the discount percent of the item. </li> <li> 4 <b>Plug the sale price into the formula.</b> Make sure you substitute for the variable <math xmlns=$

How to Calculate the List Price of an Item on Sale