thomaswillmsn4150 thomaswillmsn4150
  • 02-04-2019
  • Mathematics
contestada

A shoe store is selling a pair of shoes for $60 that has been discounted by 20%. What was the original selling price? Show your work.

Respuesta :

calculista
calculista calculista
  • 11-04-2019

Answer:

The original selling price was [tex]\$75[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Let

x-----> the original selling price

we know that

[tex]100\%-20\%=80\%=80/100=0.80[/tex]

so

[tex]0.80(x)=60[/tex] -----> equation that represent the situation

solve for x

Divide by 0.80 both sides

[tex]x=60/0.80=\$75[/tex]

Answer Link

Otras preguntas

How do you do this question?
what is brood nurse​
What is Electric potential energy in the easiest way to explain?!?!
The reaction of ammonia with α-ketoglutarate is catalyzed by _________ and requires _________ as a reactant.
Solve the equation for X.
Immigrants often stayed in neighborhoods with other people from the same country. what were these neighborhoods called apex
Which part of the world did the United States intervene most by sending troops in the nineteenth century?
On a protractor there are two scales.Read one scale to find 44.What is the measure on the other side
Solve for R and S Please explain
what is systemic circulation defination define in very short​