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put this solution on YOUR website!Since the car costs $24,416 with everything, you know that is the base price (B) added to the major options package (M) price and the destination charge (D). This equation can be written as
. Your other equations can be written as
and
.
To solve, you need to first solve the last two equations for M and D. These change to
and
. This will be easier if you change those fractions to decimals, to get
and
. Now you can plug these into the first original equation to change it to
. Combine like terms to get
. Solve by dividing, to get B = 21,800. This is the base price for the car.
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