Let us say original price of the laptop was x dollars.
Price paid by Tom for the laptop = $245.97
Now this price paid by tom was 3/5 of the original price.
So we can make an equation using this information as :
[tex]\frac{3}{5}x=245.97[/tex]
So here 3/5 is in multiplication on the left, so dividing it on the right side we have:
x=409.95
So the original price of the laptop was $409.95
Answer: The original price of the laptop was 409.95 dollars.
