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Yeah Whoa All right Masks members more coming at you

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Here we go Yakup That's how they pronounce that in

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Sweden where he's from typically perches dress shirts that looked

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like that for thirty five bucks each at his favorite

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store he visits the shop on a day when every

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Drescher discounted by ten percent He also sees that a

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new tie will cost him only twelve bucks You could

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try to light it on fire It won't even light

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on this particular day It's twelve bucks Yeah which of

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the following represents the amount of money Yacoub would spend

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if he perches both a new tie and D dress

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shirts and forget about sales Okay Well Yacoub's quite a

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lucky man to enter the store in a discount day

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We love doing that We'd say he is getting ready

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to be quite the fancy pants but it appears he's

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looking for shirts not pants Well to find the correct

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equation first consider the meaning of a ten percent discount

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He'll pay ten percent less than he would normally pay

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Buying an individual shirt Well this means we can subtract

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ten percent from whatever one hundred percent of the price

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of the shirt is to find that he'll be paying

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ninety percent of that original price Right so it's a

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hundred bucks you'd be paying ninety We know the original

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Price D is thirty five Well the price per shirt

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then can be represented as ninety percent of thirty five

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or point nine times thirty five Well defined the total

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that Yacoub will spend on Drescher's prior to sales tax

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We can multiply the price pressured by D the variable

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representing the number of shirts he'll buy Got it It's

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a point nine times three five D But wait a

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minute Yacoub is not first eight ready yet He's gotta

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finish off that look with a tie We know he

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will buy one tie for twelve bucks who Just add

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that twelve to the total amount that he'll spend on

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Drescher's and you get that equation right there Point nine

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three five People s twelve Yacoub's getting a discount on

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a ten percent price increase Get rid of a discounts

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ten percent not a measly ten cents Get rid of

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C and there's also nothing in the problem about a

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package deals so Yacoub won't receive a ten percent off

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his tie either So that's it The answer is B

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