The sweater department ran a sale last week and sold 95% of the sweaters that were on sale. 38 sweaters were sold. how many sweaters were on sale?

40.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : The sweater department ran a sale last week and sold 95% of the sweaters that were on sale.

95% can be written as 0.95  [ by dividing 100 ]

Also, the number of sweaters sold = 38

Let x be the number of sweaters were on sale.

Then , we have the following equation :_

Hence, 40 sweaters were on sale.

d (5 x (-20)) * (100 x (0.7))

step-by-step explanation:

5÷1/100 * -.7 *-20

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5*100 * -.7 *-20

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5*-20   * 100 *-.7

-100   *-70

7000