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Rick is buying a t-shirt and a sweater.The sweater costs 3 times as much as the t-shirt.The cost of the sweater is 27$. How much does the t-shirt cost?

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the answer is 9 dollars
User Akash Sharma
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Answer:

9$

Explanation:

The way you undo multiplication is division. If the sweater costs 27$, you divide that by 3 to get a third of the cost.

User Gene Belitski
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