SOLUTION: a store reduced the price of an appliance to $651. This is a 16% discount. Set up and solve an equation for the original price

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Question 647264: a store reduced the price of an appliance to $651. This is a 16% discount. Set up and solve an equation for the original price
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

a store reduced the price of an appliance to $.
This is a % discount.
let's the original price be
solution:






............the original price
and a % discount was










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