An instrument store gives a 20% discount to all students off the original cost of an instrument. During a back to school sale an additional 25% is taken off the discounted price. Janice, a student at the incredible Thornridge High School, purchases a flute for $306. How much did it originally cost?

Many newspapers carry a certain puzzle in which the reader must unscramble letters to form words. how many ways can the letters of emdangl be arranged? identify the correct unscrambling, then determine the probability of getting that result by randomly selecting one arrangement of the given letters.