In a 25% discount sale, someone bought a toaster for £30. How much was the toaster before the discount?

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In a 25% discount sale, someone bought a toaster for £30. How much was the toaster before the discount?

I have an answer correcting homework yet I don't understand how to find the original price; how to find the 25% that has been taken off. Steps included please, any help appreciated!

Update:

By using a currency converter, apparently £30.00 is equivalent to $48.03, but even just an example with any money would do if you can't answer my question because of the currency:)

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It's £40. I do it this way:

The full price would be 100% which is what we want to find.

£30 is the full price with the 25% discount so therefore it's only 75% (100% - 25%).

First we find 1% by dividing £30 by 75 (because that's how much percent £30 is). This gives you 0.4 which is 1%. To turn 1% into 100% we multiply it by 100 so multiply 0.4 by 100. That gives you £40 which is 100% and so it's the price before the discount.

Sorry if its confusing!