Am I doing this right? The question is... At the first store Arlene visited, she spent 40% of her money plus $4. At the second store she spent 50% of her remaining money plus $5. At the third store Arlene spent 60% of her remaining money plus $6. When Arlene finished shopping at the three stores, she had $2 left over. How many dollars did she have when she started shopping? My equation was x - 2 = ((0.4x+4)0.5+5)0.6+6. Both sides of the equation were to find how much she spent. I got 13.86363...

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  $90

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's consider the remaining money. If x represents the amount Arlene started with, then the remaining amounts are ...

  after first store: x -(0.4x +4) = 0.60x -4

After spending 50% of her money, the amount remaining will be 1-50% = 50%. Then spending 5 more dollars reduces the amount remaining by another 5.

  after second store: (0.60x -4)(0.50) -5 = 0.30x -2 -7 = 0.30x -7

After spending 60% of her money, the amount remaining will be 1-60% = 40%. Then spending 6 more dollars reduces the amount remaining by another 6.

  after third store: (0.30x -7)(0.40) -6 = 0.12x -2.80 -6 = 0.12x -8.80

This is reported to be $2, so we have ...

  0.12x -8.80 = 2

  0.12x = 10.80

  x = 90

Arlene started shopping with $90.

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At the first store, Arlene spent 0.40×$90 +$4 = $40, so she had $90-40=$50 remaining.

At the second store, Arlene spent 0.50×$50 +$5 = $30, so she had $50-30=$20 remaining.

At the third store, Arlene spent 0.60×$20+$6 = $18, so she had $20-18 =$2 remaining.

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answer:   segregation violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which holds that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

details/explanation:

brown v. board of education of topeka, decided by the us supreme court in 1954, ruled that all americans are entitled to the same civil liberties and protections in regard to access to education. until that decision, it was legal to segregate schools according to race, so that black students could not attend the same schools as white students.   an older supreme court decision, plessy v. ferguson (1896), had said that separate, segregated public facilities were acceptable as long as the facilities offered were equal in quality.   in the case of brown v. board of education, that standard was challenged and defeated.   segregation was shown to create inequality, and the supreme court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.

the ruling was important in advancing civil rights because it affirmed that the 14th amendment applies to all rights and privileges of citizens, including access to   education.   this was being violated by states whose laws supported the segregation of schools.   section 1 of the 14th amendment reads as follows: