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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by gigante omar's it's seriously has

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everything including a wal mart and target heart Gigantor mart

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is having a sale Prices of all items in the

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store had been reduced by thirty five percent If it's

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shirts on sale for twelve bucks then how much did

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it cost before the sale Before that This can right

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here in central answers All right um okay well we

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could call her aunt flo and she'd be able to

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answer this force in about two seconds because that woman

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knows her way around the sale but we'd rather not

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get roped into another hour long discussion about her gout

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So let's try and go it alone All right there's

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This shirt It used to cost x dollars that's what

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we're trying to find But it went on sale for

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thirty five percent off the regular price and now costs

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only twelve dollars So well we get x minus thirty

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five percent of x is twelve You got that We

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know we can write percent's decimals something that would probably

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be really helpful in this instance so we can also

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express this equation as x minus point three Five Acts

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equals 12 well x minus point three Five Acts is

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point 6:5 accent now by both sides by point six

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five to get x equals twelve over point six five

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and our handy dandy calculator tells us that twelve over

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point six five equals eighteen point four Six Give or

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take which is our answer choice c as in come

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help me with my

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