Glass plates are packaged and shipped to a retail store, but 20% of all the shipped plates arrive broken. In the last shipment, 145 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. NOTE:%C2%A0In the bottom right corner of each question, you will see an option to check answer. Click this to check your answer before moving on to the next question. It will not tell you the correct answer, but it will tell you if the answer you selected is correct. You can use this feature twice per question. Skip to navigation

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Glass plates are packaged and shipped to a retail store, but 20% of all the shipped plates arrive broken. In the last shipment, 145 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.  NOTE:%C2%A0In the bottom right corner of each question, you will see an option to check answer. Click this to check your answer before moving on to the next question. It will not tell you the correct answer, but it will tell you if the answer you selected is correct. You can use this feature twice per question.  Skip to navigation

GPT-4o mini · Answer

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

Let \( x \) be the total number of plates shipped. According to the problem, 20% of the plates arrived broken, which can be expressed as:

\[ 0.20x = 145 \]

To find \( x \), we can divide both sides of the equation by 0.20:

\[ x = \frac{145}{0.20} \]

Calculating that gives:

\[ x = 145 \div 0.20 = 145 \div \frac{1}{5} = 145 \times 5 = 725 \]

Thus, the total number of plates shipped is \( \boxed{725} \).