SOLUTION: A store has found that sales have decreased 4% from last year. Sales this year are $195,000. Find the amount of last years sales?
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Question 767123: A store has found that sales have decreased 4% from last year. Sales this year are $195,000. Find the amount of last years sales?
Answer by Bob Jones(2) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let "X" be the amount of sales last year
Therefore,the amount of sales this year is 0.96X
You can set up the equation:0.96X=195000
Divide both sides by 0.96 to get X=$203125
Therefore,last year there were $203125 amount of sales.
I hope this helped.=)
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