A store has a 20% off sale on pants. With this discount, the price of one pair of pants before tax is $15.20. What was the original price of the pants? Multiple choice question.

A)
$3.04

B)
$12.16

C)
$18.24

D)
$19.00

$19.00

Step-by-step explanation:

The answer would obviously not be the first 2 due to those being lower than the sale price so it would have tot be one of the bottom 2 so i chose one of the two and figured out what 20% off those prices would be to see which matched with $15.20 :) pls give me brainliest

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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!

any of them that add up to 180 degrees.