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The regular price of a shirt at a store is . The sale price of the shirt is less than the regular price, and the sale price is greater than the store's cost for the shirt. What was the store’s cost, in dollars, for the shirt? (Disregard the sign when entering your answer. For example, if your answer is , enter )

Enter a number or fraction (like 3/17 or 0.176). Press Enter to check.

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The correct answer is . It’s given that the regular price of a shirt at a store is , and the sale price of the shirt is less than the regular price. It follows that the sale price of the shirt is , or , which is equivalent to . It’s also given that the sale price of the shirt is greater than the store’s cost for the shirt. Let represent the store’s cost for the shirt. It follows that , or . Dividing both sides of this equation by yields . Therefore, the store’s cost, in dollars, for the shirt is . Note that 1.8 and 9/5 are examples of ways to enter a correct answer.

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