You win an online auction for a toy. Your winning bid of $35 is 70% of your maximum bid. How much more were you willing to pay for the toy than you actually paid?

Based on the amount that you bid and its percentage out of what you would pay, the amount that you were willing to pay more was $15

The winning bid of $35 is only 70% of what you would have paid at most.

Your maximum bid would therefore have been:

= 35 / 70%

= $50

The amount that you were then willing to pay more than your bid was:

= Maximum bid - Winning bid

= 50 - 35

= $15

In conclusion, you were willing to pay $15 more.

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explanation:

previous steps have made pa≅ pb ≅ st ≅ su. setting the compass width to ab allows you to make tu the same length. then δstu ≅ δpab by the sss congruence postulate, and ∠p ≅ ∠s by the reason cpctc.