man sell his typewriter at 5 percent loss.if he sells it for 80 more,he hain 5 percen

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man sell his typewriter at 5 percent loss.if he sells it for 80 more,he hain 5 percent.the cost price of typewriter is?

 

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man sell his typewriter at 5 percent loss.if he sells it for 80 more,he hain 5 percent.the cost price of typewriter is?

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A man sells his typewriter at a 5 percent loss. If he sells it for 80 more, he gains 5 percent. The cost price of typewriter is...?

I have no idea why this question was assigned in your post-calculus (college?) differential equations course (noted by the category to which you'd originally posted this question). It doesn't use anything past what you learned in your (pre-high-school?) pre-algebra class, so I've moved this question to the appropriate category.

a) Pick a variable for the cost (not "cost price") that the man paid for the typewriter, since this is your unknown; say, "c".

b) One hundred percent of this cost is expressed as "1c". If he sells at a five-percent loss, then his selling price is expressed as "0.95c". If he sells for a five-percent gain, then his selling price is expressed as...?

c) To get the five-percent gain, he must sell for 80 units more than he did for the five-percent lost. What equation does this generate?

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