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After a serious automobile accident, most insurance companies will replace the damaged car with a new one if repair costs exceed 80%80\% of the NADA, or "blue-book," value of the car. Lorenzo's car recently sustained $9200\$9200 worth of damage but was not replaced. What was the bluebook value of his car?

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Let xx be the blue-book value of the car.

The conditions of the problem translate to

0.80x>9200.\begin{align*} 0.80x>9200 .\end{align*}

Using the properties of inequality, the inequality above is equivalent to

0.80x>9200x>92000.80x>11500.\begin{align*} 0.80x&>9200 \\ x&>\dfrac{9200}{0.80} \\ x&>11500 .\end{align*}

Since the car was not replaced, then the blue-book value of the car, xx is greater than $11,500.\$11,500 .

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