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With the major options package and destination charge, a sports car cost $24,416. The base price of the car was ten times the price of the major options package and fifty times the destination charge.
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With the major options package and destination charge, a sports car cost $24,416. The base price of the car was ten times the price of the major options package and fifty times the destination charge. What was the base price of the car?

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The first thing you do is to convert ten times the price and fifty times the price into a ratio.  10:50. You now add the two numbers together to get 60.  24416 / 60 = 406.9333333.  The base price of the car was $406.93. 
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