Jade buys a blouse and a skirt for 34 of their original price. Jade pays a total of $31.50 for the two items. If the original price of the blouse is $18, what is the original price of the skirt? Enter your answer in the box.
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The original cost of the skirt was $39.71. This can be found by first calculating what the total cost of the items was originally. Since you spent $31.50 on items at 34% of their original price, the total cost can be found by dividing the new total by the percentage.
$31.50/.34 = $92.65.
Now we need to find the original price of the blouse. We repeat the same action with the $18 and the percentage.
$18/.34 = $52.94.
Now we can subtract the original cost of the blouse from the original cost of both items.
$92.65-$52.94 = $31.71.
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