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Question 699564: im selling t-shirts for math club. i sold 7 t-shirts and that was 35% of my inventory. how many t-shirts were in my whole inventory?
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im selling t-shirts for math club. i sold 7 t-shirts and that was 35% of my inventory. how many t-shirts were in my whole inventory?.
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Let x = whole inventory
then
.35x = 7
x = 7/.35
x = 20