document.write( "Question 894221: A college bookstore adds 25% to the publisher's price before selling a textbook to students. If a student pays $80 for a College Algebra text, how much did the bookstore pay for the book?\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #541886 by josgarithmetic(39618)\"\" \"About 
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Let p = publisher's price.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight%28b=p%2A%281.25%29%29\", rearrangeable into \"p=b%2F1.25\".\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The student paid the bookstore price of b=80.
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