Question

When purchasing her new car, Molly traded in her previous car, which was a Buick in good condition. The dealer offered her 80% of the listed trade-in value for her car, giving her a total of $1,340. 80. What was Molly’s previous car? Buick Cars in Good Condition Model/Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Century $929 $1,086 $1,150 $1,488 $1,595 LeSabre $2,075 $2,282 $2,690 $2,935 $3,374 Regal $1,676 $1,794 $2,030 $2,214 $2,566 Riviera $1,291 $1,455 $1,520 $1,814 $1,959 a. 1999 LeSabre b. 2002 Century c. 2001 Riviera d. 1998 Regal.

Answer 1

You can use the percentage to calculate the value whose 80% was $1340.80

Molly's previous car was

Option d: 1998 Regal.

How to find the percentage from the total value?

Suppose the value of which a thing is expressed in percentage is "a'

Suppose the percent that considered thing is of "a" is b%

Then since percent shows per 100 (since cent means 100), thus we will first divide the whole part in 100 parts and then we multiply it with b so that we collect b items per 100 items(that is exactly what b per cent means).

Thus, that thing in number is

$\dfrac{a}{100} \times b$

Using the above definition to find the value of her old car

Let the value of her old car was $x

Then, as its 80% was $1340.80

Thus we have:

$\dfrac{x}{100} \times 80 = 1340.80\\x = 134080 \div 80\\x = \ 1676$

Thus, her old car was of $1676

Getting the model of the car from the given tabulated data,

we see that the car of Molly was 1998 Regal.

Thus,

Molly's previous car was

Option d: 1998 Regal.

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Answer 2

Answer:

d

Step-by-step explanation: