SOLUTION: if a family is planning to sell their home. if they want to be left with 119,380 after paying 6% of the selling price to the realtor as a comission, for how much must they sell the

SOLUTION: if a family is planning to sell their home. if they want to be left with 119,380 after paying 6% of the selling price to the realtor as a comission, for how much must they sell the

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Question 1165428: if a family is planning to sell their home. if they want to be left with 119,380 after paying 6% of the selling price to the realtor as a comission, for how much must they sell the house?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
selling price is x
they get 0.94x, since the rest is commission
0.94x=119,380, what they want
$127,000 is the selling price.
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