A shirt is marked off by 30% and you also have a cupon that allows you to take another 20% off ofthe sale price . id you purchased the shirt for 10$ , then what was the original price prior to the 30% mark-down?

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To find the original price, let the original price be x. After a 30% discount, the price becomes 0.7x. Then, applying a 20% discount on the sale price, the final price is 0.8 * 0.7x = 0.56x. Given that the final price is $10, we solve 0.56x = 10, which gives x = $17.86.

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