An airline allows each passenger 33 kilograms of luggage. Carl has to lower the weight of his suitcase 25% to stay within the limit. How much did the suitcase originally weigh? (High school)

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An airline allows each passenger 33 kilograms of luggage. Carl has to lower the weight of his suitcase 25% to stay within the limit. How much did the suitcase originally weigh?  (High school)

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

So, a percent is decimal. Try and divide 33 and .25. What do you get?

loserhead29 · Answer

132?

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

You divided. which is the right way to go. Multiplying 33 and .25 gets you 8.25. 33 divided by .25 is 132. Your correct.

loserhead29 · Answer

so 132 is the answer?

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

Yes.

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

Your welcome.

loserhead29 · Answer

thank you

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

No problem

loserhead29 · Answer

the answer was 44 but thanks anyways

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

That's not right. It should be 132.

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

https://www.google.com/search?q=132+x+.25&rlz=1CAHLQR_enUS906&oq=&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j6.9522j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on - Proof

loserhead29 · Answer

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QuestionCoveBot · Answer

You should have included the whole question.

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

25% and 1/4 are different but the same.

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

They did it as 1/4, not 25%.

loserhead29 · Answer

That is the whole question, it only said that at the bottom because i got it wrong

loserhead29 · Answer

it tells me that after i answer to show how it actually works

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

Ik. Doing it with fractions gets you a different number than the percentage way.

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

Why it does that, I don't know.

loserhead29 · Answer

lol me neither

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

They have the wrong answer. It's 132. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAHLQR_enUS906&ei=3W9RX6ycK8q7tQbcw7noDg&q=33+divided+1%2F4&oq=33+divided+1%2F4&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB46BAgAEEc6AggAOggIABAHEAoQHjoGCAAQBxAeOggIABAIEAcQHlDaEljCP2CRS2gAcAJ4AIAB0wKIAewHkgEHNS4yLjAuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjs_sKJhs7rAhXKXc0KHdxhDu0Q4dUDCA0&uact=5&safe=active&ssui=on

loserhead29 · Answer

my curriculum is just different

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

Ah, okay.

Mercury · Answer

the answer key is correct. (44 kg is the correct answer to this problem)

the problem states that Carl had a suitcase weighing some amount (let's call it w, since that's what the answer key uses). it says that he decreased the weight, w, by 25% to get to the limit of 33.

in other words, w, decreased by 25% of w
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> w - (0.25w) = 33
this equation gives you w = 44 when solved correctly

if you are still in doubt, plug w = 44 back into the equation

44 - (0.25)(44) = 33

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