Blue Tide Swim Shop is having its annual summer sale, when every item in the store gets marked down. During the sale, rashguards sell for $5 less than full price. Miguel purchases 3 rashguards and pays a total of $60.
Which equation can you use to find how much money, f, each rashguard costs at full price?
Let's denote the full price of each rashguard as f. Since during the sale each item gets marked down by $5, the sale price of each rashguard becomes f - $5.
Since Miguel purchases 3 rashguards for a total of $60, we can set up the equation:
3(f - $5) = $60
Therefore, the equation we can use to find the full price f of each rashguard is 3(f - $5) = $60.