SOLUTION: Esther bought three shirts for a total of $32 and 3 equally priced pairs of pants. She spent a total of $95, not including tax. Find the price of each pair of pants.
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Question 647418: Esther bought three shirts for a total of $32 and 3 equally priced pairs of pants. She spent a total of $95, not including tax. Find the price of each pair of pants. Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Hello,
Let's first subtract $32 from the total to give us $63. Now we can divide 3 into that to result in:
Each pants is $21
Make sense?
RJ
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