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A customer pays $1,100 in state taxes on a newly purchased car. What is the value of the car if state taxes are 8.9% of the value?

We setup this problem as .089 x = 1100. Where X = the original value of the car before taxes of 8.9%. We also change 8.9% by dividing by 100 giving us .089.

What is the value of the car before taxes?