Math, asked by alvairis1995, 1 year ago

The selling price for a classic speedboat is $18,000, which is $1500 more than two times its original price. What was the original price of the speedboat?

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Answered by mysticd
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Solution:

Let Original price of a speedboat(c.p) = $ x

selling price (s.p) = $18000

according to the problem given,

selling price

(s.p) = 2×c.p+ $1500

=> 2x+1500=18000

=> 2x = 18000-1500

=>2x = 16500

=> x = 16500/2

=> x = 8250

Therefore,

Original price of the speedboat

(x) = $8250

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alvairis1995: do you mind helping me with this question.... The sum of three consecutive integers is 369. Find the three integers.
mysticd: post it in brainly.
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