You paid $80 for a tennis racket. If you found the racket under a sign stating 1/4 off, what must the original retail price have been?

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To solve this problem you must apply the proccedure shown below:
 1. You have that you paid $80 for a tennis racket which was under a sign stating 1/4 off. Therefore, you can express this with the following equation:
 
[tex] x-x/4=80 [/tex]
 Where 
[tex]x[/tex]is the original retail price.
 2. When you solve for 
[tex]x[/tex], you obtain:
 [tex]3/4x=80 \\ x=106.67[/tex]
 The answer is: [tex]106.67 dollars [/tex]