Let x represent the original cost of the suit.
To calculate the discount, they calculated the 33% of the original price and then subtracted the result from the original price.
To calculate the 33% of any given value you have to do as follows:
33/100=0.33
0.33x → represents the 33% of the original price.
The price with discount was obtained by subtracting the 33% discount from the original price, symbolically:
x-0.33x=268
Clear the value of x:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 0.67x=268 \\ x=\frac{268}{0.67} \\ x=400 \end{gathered}[/tex]The original price of the suit is $400
