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Please help! Explain ALL your work! My last post was removed. I have more questions (7 questions in total) but I’m not allowed to post that many on here at once. Can someone message me and help with all of them? I already have question 1 done, I’m just posting about question 2.
You want to plant a flower garden in your yard. There are two types of flowers that you are going to be planting. You will be planting some tulips and geraniums. At the store tulips come in packs of 6 and geraniums come in packs of 9.

1. What is the least amount of packs of geraniums and tulips you would need to buy to have the same amount of each?
How many should you have of each kind of flower?

You will need 3 packs of tulips and 2 packs of geraniums.
You should have 18 flowers of each kind.

2. Each pack of tulips costs $4.60 and each pack of geraniums cost $5.25. From the previous problem, you know how many packs of each you will need. The sales tax is 6.5%.
How much tax will you be paying for all the flowers, to the nearest cent?


How much total will you be paying for all flowers, to the nearest cent?

Answer 1

Answer:

• tax: $1.58  
• total: $25.88

Step-by-step explanation:

It should be no surprise that the total bill is the sum of the costs of the items being purchased plus the tax on that sum.

  3 packs of tulips @ $4.60 =  $13.80

  2 packs of geraniums @ $5.25 = $10.50

Subtotal: $13.80 +10.50 = $24.30

  Tax = 0.065 · $24.30 = $1.58

Total cost = $24.30 + 1.58 = $25.88