If $44,000 is $1000 less than five times more than he had made on his previous painting, then $44,000+$1000 = $45,000 is five times what he made on his previous painting.

If $45,000 is five times what he made for his previous painting, then he made $45,000/5 = $<<45000/5=9000>>9,000 for selling his previous painting.

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9,000
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Porter is a painter who creates beautiful paintings of wild animals.  Most recently, he painted a mural of a pack of wolves standing on a snowy-white mountainside underneath a full moon.  He put the painting up for auction and it sold for $1000 less than five times more than he had made on his previous painting.  If he received $44,000 for the sale of his most recent painting, how much, in dollars, did he make for selling his previous painting?
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Porter is a painter who creates beautiful paintings of wild animals.  Most recently, he painted a mural of a pack of wolves standing on a snowy-white mountainside underneath a full moon.  He put the painting up for auction and it sold for $1000 less than five times more than he had made on his previous painting.  If he received $44,000 for the sale of his most recent painting, how much, in dollars, did he make for selling his previous painting?
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