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Your friend paid $17 for a shirt. This amount was 85% of the total amount your friend spent while shopping. How much money did your friend spend?Immersive Reader
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Your friend paid $17 for a shirt. This amount was 85% of the total amount your friend spent while shopping. How much money did your friend spend?Immersive Reader

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Using the information provided, you would do 17/.85 to find the total amount. Subtract that quotient from 17 and you will get how much your friend spent.
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