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If the price per orange is $.26 and we want to know how many oranges he bought and we have our total, we can set o equal to how many oranges he got and set up an algebraic equation:

0.26o = 2.08

We multiply .26 by o because o is how many oranges he bought and that's what we're solving for- so we multiply by the unit price.

To isolate o, we divide both sides by .26 to get:

The answer is C- Jim bought 8 oranges.

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90. The number of daily evening newspapers in the United States has decreased by 46.5% to

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Answer:

700

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Daily evening newspapers in 2015 = 389

Percentage decrease from 2000 to 2015 = 46.5%

To find:

Number of newspapers in 2000 = ?

Solution:

Let the number of newspapers in 2000 = $x$

When 46.5% of the total newspapers in 2000 ( $x$ ) is subtracted from the total newspapers in 2000 ( $x$ ), it will be equal to the number of newspapers in 2015.

Making the equation as per the given statement:

$x-x\times 46.5\%=389\\\Rightarrow \dfrac{100x-46.5x}{100}=389\\\Rightarrow 53.5x=38900\\\Rightarrow x\approx \bold{727}$