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)
(blank) p = 7.98
2p = 7.98
To complete the equation, we know that the original price, p, is equal to twice the price of the shirt during the year-end sale, $7.98. Therefore, the completed equation is:
2p = 7.98
To solve for the original price, p, we divide both sides of the equation by 2:
p = 7.98 / 2
Simplifying, we find that the original price, p, is equal to $3.99.
To solve this problem, we need to determine the original price of the shirt, represented by the variable p. Given that the shirt now costs $7.98, which is half of the original price, we can set up the equation:
p / 2 = 7.98
In this equation, we divide the original price p by 2 to represent that the current price is half of the original price. Now, to solve for p, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 2 to isolate p:
2 * (p / 2) = 2 * 7.98
This simplifies to:
p = 15.96
Therefore, the original price of the shirt is $15.96.