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Question

A store is having a sale. The sale is buy one sweat shirt, get the second sweat shirt for 30% off. The price of the discounted sweat shirt is $28
During the first hour of the sale, the store had $748 in sweat shirt sales.
How many sweat shirts were sold in the first hour? Enter the answer in the box.

Answer 1

Let's first find the original price of the sweatshirt. Since the discounted price ($28) is 70% of the original price, we can let x be the original price of the sweatshirt and set up the equation:

0.70x = 28

Now, we just need to solve for x:

x = 28 / 0.70
x = 40

So, the original price of the sweatshirt is $40.

Now that we know the original price, we can find the price of each pair of sweatshirts:

40 (original sweatshirt) + 28 (discounted sweatshirt) = $68

Now, we can find how many pairs of sweatshirts were sold in the first hour by dividing the total sales by the cost per pair:

748 (total sales) / 68 (price per pair) = 11 pairs

Since each pair of sweatshirts consists of 2 sweatshirts, 11 pairs of sweatshirts would equal:

11 pairs * 2 sweatshirts = 22 sweatshirts.

So, 22 sweatshirts were sold in the first hour.