SOLUTION: Your friend paid $11.70 for a bag of popcorn at the movie theater. This amount was 52% of the total amount your friend spent at the theater. How much money did your friend spend (i
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Question 214734: Your friend paid $11.70 for a bag of popcorn at the movie theater. This amount was 52% of the total amount your friend spent at the theater. How much money did your friend spend (in dollars)?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Your friend paid $11.70 for a bag of popcorn at the movie theater. This amount was 52% of the total amount your friend spent at the theater. How much money did your friend spend (in dollars)?
Step 1. 52%=0.52 by definition of percent.
Step 2. Let Total Cost = T
Step 3. Cost of popcorn = $11.70 = 0.52*T since 52% of Total Cost or T=11.70/.52= 22.50
Step 4. The total cost his friend spent was $22.50.
I hope the above steps were helpful.
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