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.