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After a $30 \%$ price reduction, you purchase a television for $\$ 980 .$ What was the television's price before the reduction?
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This means that $980 is 70% of the original price, because 100% - 30% = 70%. We can represent this as an equation: $0.7X = 980$, where X is the original price of the television. Show more…
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