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This is probably really easy but I’m dumb help lol

This is probably really easy but I’m dumb help lol-example-1

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Let the original cost be
x.

Profit= $187-x$

The profit is 120%, which means:

$\frac{(187-x)}{x}\times 100 = 120$

Solve to get:

$x=\frac{187\times 5}{11}=85$

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