A sweater costs $40. That is 5 times as much as a shirt. What is the price of the shirt?

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    A sweater costs $40. That is 5 times as much as a shirt. What is the price of the shirt?

    State this as an equation. Let the price of the shirt be s. 5 times as much means we multiply s by 5:
    5s = 40

    Type this equation into the search engine, we get:
    s = 8
     
    math_celebrity, Nov 13, 2019
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