Problema Solution

Soft Shoes, a shoe store, sold $1,528 of blue slippers last week. If that amount is 11.5% of their total sales, what were their total sales? Round to the nearest dollar

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represent the percentage, 11.5% as a decimal: 0.115


let 't' represent the total sales


$1,528 is 11.5% of total sales, which can be expressed as a fraction:

1528/t = 0.115

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total sales

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t=13286.9565


The total sales is approximately $13,287