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- - - - - - - - -_._The ~ $11.70 The regular price of a shirt at a store is 80% sale price of the shirt is less than the regular price, and the sale price is 30% greater than the store’s cost for the shirt. What was the store’s cost, in dollars, for the shirt? (Disregard the $ sign when entering your answer. For example, if your answer is $4.97, enter 4.97)
Correct answer: 1.8 (parsed from the explanation — this source omits an answer key for this item)
Explanation
1.8 The correct answer is . It’s given that the regular price of a shirt at a store is $11.70 80% , and the sale price of the shirt is less than the regular price. It follows $11.70 1- 80 $11.70 1-0.8 that the sale price of the shirt is b 100 l, or ^ h, which is $2.34 30% equivalent to . It’s also given that the sale price of the shirt is greater than the store’s cost for the shirt. Let x represent the store’s cost for the shirt. It 2.34= 1+ 30 2.34=1.3 follows that b 100 lx, or x. Dividing both sides of this equation 1.3 =1.80 1.80 by yields x . Therefore, the store’s cost, in dollars, for the shirt is . Note that 1.8 and 9/5 are examples of ways to enter a correct answer.
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