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laura goes shopping she spends one fourth of her money on a pair of shorts and one third of her remaining money on a belt if laura has $42 dollars left after these two purchases how much money did she have when she started shopping?

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  1. Today, 08:53
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    84 dollars

    Step-by-step explanation:

    use x to represent the amount of money Laura had when she started shopping.

    use y to represent the amount of money she had left after buying a pair of shorts.

    You can create these two equations:

    3/4x=y

    2/3x=42

    now, subsitute the value of y into the second equation.

    2/3 (3/4x) = 42

    1/2x=42

    x=84
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