SOLUTION: The price of a saddle is 15% of the cost of a horse. If the total cost of the horse and saddle is $1437.50, what is the cost of the saddle?
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Question 222150: The price of a saddle is 15% of the cost of a horse. If the total cost of the horse and saddle is $1437.50, what is the cost of the saddle?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the cost of a horse. Then 
is the cost of the saddle, and:
Solve for to get the cost of a horse, then subtract that amount from 1437.50 to get the cost of the saddle.
John
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