A jacket has its price reduced by 20% in a sale - OCR - GCSE Maths - Question 12 - 2020 - Paper 1

Let the original price of the jacket be denoted as $x$.

Since the jacket is reduced by 20%, the sale price represents 80% of the original price. Thus, we can express this as:

$0.8x = 56$

To find $x$, we divide both sides of the equation by 0.8:

$x = \frac{56}{0.8}$

Calculating this gives:

$x = 70$

Therefore, the price of the jacket before the sale is £70.