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All books in a store are being discounted by 30%

Part A
Let x represent the regular price of any book in the store. Write an expression that can be used to find the sale price of any book in the story

Expression: ????

Part B
Jerome bought a book on sale at the store. The sale price of the book was $8.96. Write and solve an expression to determine the regular price of the book to the nearest cent.

Equation: ??????

Regular Price of Book: ???????

PLSS ANSWER!! i dont understand how to do this ;-;. if you answer please explain how you got your answer.

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Part A: 0.7(x)

Part B: 8.96/0.7 ---> (You can solve this by yourself)


For getting the answer, you can assume the regular price of the book is x. Then, the sale price would be x-0.3x, which is 0.7x

For part B, the price is 0.7 of the original. Dividing the number by 0.7 gets you the original price

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