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The total price of a basic computer + a printer is $2,500. If the same printer had been purchased with an enhaced computer whose price was $500 more than the price of the basic computer, then the price of the printer would have been 1/5 of the total cost. What was the price of the basic computer?

My answer: $2,000 How I got it? I wrote an equation: 2500=z+500
2000=z
Can somebody please check this problem out for me as well as my answer?

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alejandra9kg said:
The total price of a basic computer + a printer is $2,500. If the same printer had been purchased with an enhaced computer whose price was $500 more than the price of the basic computer, then the price of the printer would have been 1/5 of the total cost. What was the price of the basic computer?
No equations required:
2500 + 500 = 3000 (total if enhanced computer)
1/5(3000) = 600 (price of printer)
2500 - 600 = 1900 (price of basic computer)
 
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