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After a $30 \%$ price reduction, you purchase a television for $\$ 980 .$ What was the television's price before the reduction? (Section P.8, Example 4).
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We can represent this situation with the equation $0.70x = 980$, where $x$ is the original price of the television. This is because the price after the reduction is 70% (or 0.70) of the original price. Show more…
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