SOLUTION: Hope went shopping and found a pair of jeans that had been marked down four times. The purchase price was a combination of the mark downs. The jeans started at $49.99. The first ma
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Question 570898: Hope went shopping and found a pair of jeans that had been marked down four times. The purchase price was a combination of the mark downs. The jeans started at $49.99. The first mark down was 20%, that price was marked down 30%, the third mark down was 10%, and the final mark down was an additional 20%. How much were the jeans?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the original price
The 1st markdown makes the price
The 2nd markdown makes it
The 3rd markdown makes it
The 4th markdown makes it
given:
Hope bought the jeans for $20.16
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