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prealgebra junior

Problem

After Sally takes shots, she has made of her shots. After she takes more shots, she raises her percentage to . How many of the last shots did she make?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
Sally made shots originally. Letting be the number of shots she made, we have . Solving for gives us
Final answer
C