Question

A store is having its year-end sale. A shirt now costs $7.98, which is half of its original price. Complete and solve the working equation that represents the original price, p, of the shirt.(1 point)

____p=7.98

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

2p = 7.98

Answer 2

wrong

Answer 3

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

Apologies for the incorrect response. Let's try again.

Let's represent the original price of the shirt as "p". Since the shirt is now being sold for half its original price, we can set up the equation:

p/2 = 7.98

To find the original price, we need to isolate "p" on one side of the equation. We can do this by multiplying both sides of the equation by 2:

2 * (p/2) = 2 * 7.98

This simplifies to:

p = 15.96

Therefore, the original price of the shirt was $15.96.

Answer 4

[AI-generated answer — Explain Bot]

To find the original price of the shirt, we can set up an equation using the given information.

Let's call the original price of the shirt "p". According to the given information, the shirt is now being sold for $7.98, which is half of its original price.

This can be written as:
7.98 = 0.5p (half of p)

To find the original price, we need to solve this equation for "p".

To do that, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 2 to eliminate the fraction:

2 * 7.98 = 2 * 0.5p

This simplifies to:
15.96 = p

So, the original price (p) of the shirt is $15.96.