SOLUTION: I need help solving the following word problem: Jill paid $36 for calendars marked down $5 apiece from the original price. If she had bought them at the original price, she would
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Question 199347: I need help solving the following word problem: Jill paid $36 for calendars marked down $5 apiece from the original price. If she had bought them at the original price, she would have gotten 5 fewer calendars for the same price. How many calendars did she buy?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of items she purchased. Since she paid $36 for each of them, she paid 
total. Since they were marked down $5, the original price must have been 
. Five fewer than she actually bought is 
so the amount she would have spent if they had not been marked down must be )
. We are given that both of these amounts are the same, so:
)
Solve for
John
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