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

1 Answer
Mar 30, 2016

$73.75

Explanation:

pp=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$64+$9.75=p
$73.75=p$73.75=p
p=$73.75p=$73.75