A store is having its year-end sale. A shirt now costs $7.98, which is half of its original price. Complete and solve the working equation that represent the original price, p, of the shirt.

Question

__p = 7.98
p= 15.96
The first one is not 2

Answer 1

Let's represent the original price of the shirt as p.

According to the problem, the current price of the shirt is $7.98, which is half of its original price. We can represent this information in an equation:

7.98 = p/2

To find the original price, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 2:

2(7.98) = p
15.96 = p

Therefore, the original price of the shirt is $15.96.