Katie put a $980 item on layaway by making a down payment of 14% of the purchase price. how much does she have left to pay after making the down payment?

$842.8

Step-by-step explanation:

It says that Katie already paid the 14% of the item as a down payment, so she needs to pay the remaining 86% of the item.

To get that, it is:

$980 x 86% = $842.8

your answer would be 12

or

step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!