You usually buy a 5.4 ounce bottle of lotion. There is a new bottle that says it gives you 20% more free. Write an equation to be used to find the size of the larger bottle, x.

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Augustus Mclean

4 June, 01:05

You usually buy a 5.4 ounce bottle of lotion. There is a new bottle that says it gives you 20% more free. Write an equation to be used to find the size of the larger bottle, x.

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Blimpie · Answer 1

20% is 1/5 more so it is 1 1/5 times the size of the smaller one. 1 1/5 is 1.2 as a decimal (also 120% divided by 100).

Let's take the smaller bottle to be y.

x=1.2y

x=1.2*5.4=6.48 ounces.