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A used car is on sale for $3,600. Eric offered the owner of the car 4/5 of the asking price. How much was Eric's offer?

A used car is on sale for $3,600. Eric offered the owner of the car 4/5 of the asking price. How much was Eric's offer?
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A used car is on sale for $3,600. Eric offered the owner of the car 4/5 of the asking price. How much was Eric's offer?

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2880. What you do is you set this problem up as a proportion. So you do 4/5= x/3600. You then cross multiply and divide.
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The word OF means that you need to Multiply. 4/5 OF 3,600 is 3,600*4/5. When you Multiply these, you get 2,880. So, your answer is $2,880.
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