Alex was hired to unpack 576 items of glass wear, at five cents per piece unpacked. for every item broken in the process, however, alex had to pay $1.98. at the end of the job, alex received $22.71. how many items did alex break.

576*0.05= $28.80.
Guess and check: 1.98*5=9.9
28.80-9.9=18.9- too much
1.98*3=5.94
28.80-5.94=22.86- this is the closest

So he must have broken 3 items.
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1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!