ShmoopTube

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Here's your Shmoop dujour, brought to you by Gigantomart.

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It seriously has everything, including a Walmart and a Target.

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We could call our Aunt Flo, and she'd able to answer this for us in about two seconds...

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because that woman knows her way around a sale.

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But we'd rather not get roped into another hour-long discussion about her gout,

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so let's try and go it alone.

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Here's this shirt. It used to cost $X. That's what we're trying to find.

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It went on sale for 35% off the regular price.

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It now costs only $12.

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We know we can write percents as decimals, something that would be really helpful in this instance.

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So we can also express this equation as X - 0.35X = 12.

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Our handy dandy calculator tells us that

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12 over 0.65 equals 18.46,

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which is our answer choice C.

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As in, come help me with my gout.

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