adriana21a adriana21a
  • 09-02-2015
  • Mathematics
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HELP..Maya spent 40% of her savings to pay for a bike that cost her $85 how much money was in her savings to begin with?

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kaylagrlz12 kaylagrlz12
  • 09-02-2015
If 40% or .4 of her savings is $85 then we can write the equation .4s=$85 (s being the original amount in savings)
Divide both sides by .4 to get s= $212.50 as the original amount that she had
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  • 09-02-2015
$85 is 40% of her savings.

So, 

40% of x is egual to $85
40/100x = 85
0,4x = 85
x = 85 / 0,4
x = 212,5

[tex]ANSWER = \$ 212,50[/tex]
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