You shopped online and found your MP3 player for $9.75 less than the store price #p#. The online price was $64. How do you write and solve and equation to find the store price?

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Ch
Mar 30, 2016

$73.75

Explanation:

#p#=store price

Since the online price is $64 and it is $9.75 cheaper than store price.
Therefore the equation should look like this:

online price + the price difference between two prices = store price

#$64+$9.75=p#
#$73.75=p#
#p=$73.75#

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