A store sells candles. Each candle costs the same amount. During a sale, the store reduces the price of each candle by $1.70. Owen spends $11.96 on 4 candles at the sale price.
Let's call the original price of each candle "x".
During the sale, each candle costs "x - 1.70".
So we know that:
4(x - 1.70) = 11.96
Simplifying:
4x - 6.80 = 11.96
4x = 18.76
x = 4.69
So the original price of each candle was $4.69, and during the sale, each candle cost $2.99.