SOLUTION: please check my Math ! US Sales of hybrid cars for the first quarter of 2012 totaled 106,206 units . This is a 23 percent increase on the figure of units sold for the same per

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Question 1173571: please check my Math !
US Sales of hybrid cars for the first quarter of 2012 totaled 106,206 units . This is a 23 percent increase on the figure of units sold for the same period in 2011. Find the number of units sold in 2011 . Round to the nearest units .
23/100 = 0.23
2.23/106206 = 2.165= 216
106206-216= 105990
Answer by ikleyn(52838) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is how this problem SHOULD BE solved (!)


    (1 + 0.23)x = 106206


       1.23x    = 106206


           x    = 106206%2F1.23 = 86346.34,  or  86346   (rounded).    ANSWER

Solved.

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