This will be really simple to most of you, but I’m clueless.
I received a payout check from some presale tickets on a show I promoted a while back. The presale manager already took their percentage out, but didn’t give me the original sum before she took the percentage. She is unavailable to tell me what the original amount was.
The amount I received was $342. She took 5% off the top.
I’m pretty sure that to figure it out, I use the equation:
X - .05x = 342
But I have no recollection of how to solve this, and I sucked at math in school anyway. Any help would be appreciated.