For instance if the original price was 500 and you receive a 20 percent discount your equation would look like this. Calculating the original number after a percentage increase. In order to do this we.
500 - 500 x 20 percent discounted price.
Subtract the discount from 100 to get the percentage of the original price. Then the formula is. This calculation helps you to find the original price after a percentage decrease. Then we solve the problem as follows.