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rjae.npt

An alternative way is 240 x 5 =1,200 because 100 divided by 20 is 5 and then you multiply it by the increase

therepublic_2.0

For anyone still unsure: the 20% increase = £240, so 10% = £120, and 100% = £1,200 (that's the original price). The £960 some people got comes from subtracting 240 from the wrong total — easy mistake under exam pressure!

mel_mayyah

An alternate method and one students may find easier is to recognise 20% is 240 so 10% is 120. Therefore 100% must be 10 times that so £1200.

cold73338

You don’t gotta do anything like that it’s a foundation ahh question just do if 20 % is 240 so 10% is 120 so make it 100% 120x10=1200 this is easy 😂

cold73338

shaznatasha

The kind of question we're teaching in year 6 for SATs 🥴

julia_maths_tutor

There's very, very little chance a Foundation tier student would do it this way though. If they were comfortable enough with decimals and dividing by them, they would be doing Higher.

c.beru1

I'm in ks3 this is GCSE foundation? Seems easy or I'm getting arrogant.

drz.ftg

My slow self would write the equation exactly how I read it. Would get there eventually 🤣P*1.2 = P + 240.

rachvictoria93

I think my students would do 10% = £120, so 100% = £1200

adrianc0424

Is this really a gcse foundation math question?

thementalhealthpt90

Would it not be £960 (since the 20% represents an extra £240 added to the original, so you would need to subtract £240 from £1,200, to get the original value before the increase)? Or am I just over complicating the maths?!

oleg.omak_

Easy I do it daily by FC Mobile market 😎