Glass plates are packaged and shipped to a retail store, but 13% of all the shipped plates arrive broken. In the last shipment, 117 arrive broken. How many plates were shipped in total?(1 point)

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Answer 1

To find the total number of plates shipped, we can set up the equation based on the percentage of broken plates:

Let $x$ be the total number of plates shipped.

According to the problem, 13% of the plates arrived broken, which can be expressed as:

$$0.13x=117$$

To find $x$, we can solve the equation:

$$x=\frac{117}{0.13}$$

Calculating this gives:

$$x=900$$

Thus, the total number of plates shipped is 900.