After a 5% reduction, you purchase a new suit for $228. What was the price of the suit before the reduction? A) First write an equation you can use to answer this question. Use x as your variable and express any percents in decimal form in the equation.

Imogene invested $8,000 in a bank account that pays 8 percent simple interest at the end of each year. her friend invested the same amount in stocks where the growth of the investment is represented as 2,000 times the square root of 2 less than the time lapsed in years. if y1 and y2 represent the amount earned in dollars and t is the time lapsed in years, which system of equations correctly represents the situation?