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PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! FOR A TESTA shirt is on sale for 40% off. The sale price is $18.00. What is the original price of the shirt?

User Vimal Trivedi
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Let us call the original price of the shirt x, shall we?

Then 40% off means the shirt is now priced at 100% - 40% = 60% the original price; therefore, we have the equation


(60)/(100)* x=18.00
0.6x=18.00

Dividing both sides by 0.6 gives


(0.6)/(0.6)x=(18)/(0.6)
x=30.

The "x" is 30! Hence, the original price of the shirt is $30.

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