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) %C2%A0plates %C2%A0 NOTE:%C2%A0Type your numerical answer into the box for the question to be scored correctly.

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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) %C2%A0plates  %C2%A0  NOTE:%C2%A0Type your numerical answer into the box for the question to be scored correctly.

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Let $ x $ be the total number of glass plates shipped. According to the problem, 13% of the plates arrive broken, which can be expressed as: $$ 0.13x = 117 $$ To find $ x $, we can solve for it by dividing both sides by 0.13: $$ x = \frac{117}{0.13} $$ Calculating this gives: $$ x = 900 $$ Therefore, the total number of plates shipped is $ \boxed{900} $.