Answer:
<em>or 704,000</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
<u>Standard Form of Numbers</u>
Any number that we can write as a decimal number between 1.0 and 10.0, multiplied by a power of 10, is said to be in Scientific Notation. Some authors consider standard form and scientific form as the same, but others state that standard form is the common form of expressing numbers, i.e., a sequence of digits, separated by thousands by a comma, and separated from the decimal part by a dot.
We'll give here both answers.
We have to calculate:

Since the numbers don't have the same exponent, we must make them equal. Let's make the second number have an exponent of 5, by dividing by 10:


Now we add:

It's correctly expressed in scientific notation. Now to convert to 'standard form', multiply by
:

First, lets determine the regular price of his purchase :
16.99 (3) + 34.99 (3) + 52.99 (2) + 5.99 (5) = 50.97 + 104.97 + 105.98 + 29.95 = 291.87
Therefore, the regular price of his purchase is $291.87 before sales tax.
If he receives 25% off of his total purchase, then the price is now :
291.87 * .75 = $218.90
We multiply by 75% because we are only paying 75% of the total purchase price since we received a 25% discount.
The total savings is
291.87 - 218.90 = $72.97
If sales tax is 10%, the total purchase price after sales tax is :
218.90 * 1.10 = $240.79
The sales tax is $21.89 since
240.79 -218.90 = 21.89
If he pays with 3 $100 bills, we should receive :
300 - 240.79 = $59.21
in change.
Hint: if you were to graph this, and it curves, then its a linear, if not its straight, then its non linear