July bought a coat for 30% more than the price she wanted to pay. if she paid $250, how much was she looking to pay?

This is the concept of financial mathematics, the amount that July was looking to pay will be found as follows;

Buying price = $250

let the amount July was looking to buy be x

let the percentage amount be 100-30=70%

percentage buying price be 100%

thus the value of x was:

x=70/100*250

x=$175

the answer is x=$175