Uncle percy sold t shirts at the show. now he only has 10% of the t shirts he started with. if he has 25 t shirts now, how many did he start with?

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Seth Shah

4 December, 20:27

Uncle percy sold t shirts at the show. now he only has 10% of the t shirts he started with. if he has 25 t shirts now, how many did he start with?

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Carleigh Rush · Answer 1

He had 250 shirts to begin with.

Let x be the number of shirts he began with. He has 10%, or 0.10 of the shirts now he had then. This equals 25:

0.1x = 25

Divide both sides by 0.1:

0.1x/0.1 = 25/0.1

x = 250