SOLUTION: Jorge sold the last 1/9 of his newspapers for 10 cent each, which was half price.He received $1.10 for those. How much money did Jorge receive from selling the full price newspaper
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Question 1051782: Jorge sold the last 1/9 of his newspapers for 10 cent each, which was half price.He received $1.10 for those. How much money did Jorge receive from selling the full price newspapers ?
Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, ankor@dixie-net.com:
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the total number of newspapers
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The number of full price papers was:
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Full price was $.20
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He received $17.60 for sales of full price papers
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Jorge sold the last 1/9 of his newspapers for 10 cent each, which was half price. He received $1.10 for those.
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Find how many newspapers he sold at half price
1.10/.10 = 11 newspapers represent 1/9 of the total sold
Full price: 2(.10) = .20 cents
How much money did Jorge receive from selling the full price newspapers?
let x = total number sold
x = 11
x = 11 * 9
x = 99 news papers sold
*99 = 88 newspapers sold at full price
.20 * 88 = $17.60 amt for full price newspapers
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