On a certain game show, a contestant must guess the price of a car within 1% of its actual value in order to win it. If the price of the car is $23,000, and she wins the car, what is the highest price (rounded to the nearest dollar) she could have guessed?

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anonymous · Answer

In order to solve this, we first need to find the 1% of $23,000. In order to find this we have to times $23,000 by 0.01, and then add it to $23,000 to find the highest number he could guess to get it correct.