What about if you use the distributive property? You could do 1(x+13) because the 1 would distribute to the x and the 13 making it x+13. Hope that is helpful.
Your answer will be 4,605,000
$8.61
Add all of the costs together and multiply by 0.06, then add the product of multiplication to the cost of the items without tax to get the cost with tax.
