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Jason has 65 t-shirts and Wants to give away 15% of them to help clean out his closet. What equation will help him determine how many shirt to give away

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Answer:

0.15x

Explanation:

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We know that Jason has 65 t-shirts. 65 is 100% of 65, or 65 t-shirts will be 100% of the shirts he has. Confused? Think of it this way:

Let x = the number of shirts Jason has (65)

100% of x = 1x or x

15% off of x = subtracting 15%x or 0.15x

The equation that will help find the number of t-shirts to give away is 0.15x.

Since we know that x is 65, we can substitute that in.

The equation is 0.15(65)

We can simplify this to get 9.75 so he would sell 9 t-shirts.

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