PSLE
Eva wanted to buy a jacket. She saw a brown jacket on sale at 20% discount and a gold jacket at 40% discount. Both jackets had the same original price before the discounts. To buy the brown jacket, Eva would need $8.80 more that what she had. So Eva bought the gold jacket. After that, she had $2 left.

1. What was the original price of the brown jacket?
2. How much money did Eva have at first?

	Brown jacket	Gold jacket
Before	100%	100%
Change	- 20%	- 40%
After	80%	60%

(a)
Difference in the discount between the brown jacket and the gold jacket
= 40% - 20%
= 20%

Additional amount that Eva needed to pay if she would buy the brown jacket
= 8.80 + 2
= $10.80

20% →  10.80
100% → ^10.80₂₀ x 100 = 54

Original price of the brown jacket = $54

(b)
Price of the gold jacket after discount in percentage
= 100% - 40%
= 60%

Price of the gold jacket after discount
= ⁶⁰₁₀₀ x 54
= $32.40

Amount that Eva had at first
= 32.40 + 2
= $34.40

Answer(s): (a) $54; (b) $34.40