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A chair is on sale for $40, which includes an 80 percent discount. Ms Morrison thinks the original price of the book is $32. Explain ms Morrison’s mistake and determine the accurate original price of the chair. Plzzz I will give you 100 points

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she thought the chair's orginal price was fourty instead it is 72

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Ms. Morrison’s mistake was that she didn’t subtract the answer (40 x 80%) from $40. The accurate answer is $8!
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