Question

A clothing store sells a t-shirt for $17.30, which is 13% off the original price. Calculate the price of the t-shirt.

Options:
a. $19.83
b. $20.00
c. $19.00
d. $21.00

Answer 1

To find the original price, calculate $17.30 divided by 0.87 (1 minus the 13% discount rate). The result is approximately $19.89, which is closest to option a. $19.83.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question is asking to calculate the original price of a t-shirt before a 13% discount was applied when the sales price is known to be $17.30. To find the original price, we can set up an equation: original price - (original price * 0.13) = $17.30. The 0.13 represents the 13% discount as a decimal. Solving for the original price, we can divide $17.30 by (1 - 0.13) to find the original price before the discount was applied.

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The closest answer that matches our calculation is option a. $19.83, which seems to have been a small rounding error in the provided choices, as the answer we computed ($19.89) was not listed as an option.