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3 years ago

Your cousin gave you $0.72 with which to buy a gift. This covered 9/10 of the cost. How much did the present cost?

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Helga [31]3 years ago

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Answer:

$0.80

Step-by-step explanation:

percent times the original number equals the part

(%)(start or total cost)= (part of the total cost). you need to know the total cost, so you would fill in the part and the percent. 0.9x=0.72. you use x because you don't know what the total cost is. then you divide both sides by 0.9 to get x by itself and you get that x = 0.8, meaning that the present costs $0.80.

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