A hotel must increase its price by 5% per night, if the new price is $168 per night. What was the original cost?

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We see that if you add 5% to the original cost, we have $168 as our cost. This means that 105% of the original cost is 168. Let's set up an equation to find the original cost. Let's call our original cost c.

To turn a percent into a decimal, you divide by 100.

1.05c=168

We divide both sides by 1.05.

c=160

Therefore, the original cost was $160.

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x > 1.3

step by step:

8.5−0.9x> 9.8−1.9x

step 1: simplify both sides of the inequality.

−0.9x+8.5> −1.9x+9.8

step 2: add 1.9x to both sides.

−0.9x+8.5+1.9x> −1.9x+9.8+1.9x

1x+8.5> 9.8

step 3: subtract 8.5 from both sides.

1x+8.5−8.5> 9.8−8.5

1x> 1.3

step 4: divide both sides by 1.

1x/1 > 1.3/1