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Raul wants to buy a new bike from a store having a 10% off sale on
all bikes. The bike he wants has a sale price of $135. Write and solve
an equation to find the original price, b, of the bike.
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Answer:

p = $150

Step-by-step explanation:

Let p represent the original price.  Then 10% of that is the discount:  0.10p.

The price after discount is 90% of the original price, or (1.00-0.10)p = 0.90p = $135.  We next solve this equation for p:  0.90p = $135, or p = $150.

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