Question

A store had homemade sweaters on sale for $20 off the original price. Aunt Ethel jumped at the bargain and bought a sweater for all 15 member of her family. If Aunt Ethel paid $375 for all the sweaters, what was the original price of each sweater.

I doint understand how to solve this, please help.

Answer 1

375

Explanation:

15(x-20)=375

Answer 2

original price would be $675

$20 multiply 15 to get $300 being taken off.


add 300 to 375 you get $675