You use distributive property to distribute the numbers out.
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Answer:
B -1/5
you have to follow pemdas first get rid of the parethase which leaves you with 2+3x+6x=-4x+8x+1 then you add what you can do then you get 2+9x=4x+1 then you subtract 2 from both sides and subtract 4x from both sides which leaves you with 5x=-1 then you divide 5 from both sides and get x=-1/5
Amount of purchase that Steve made = $40
Percentage of tax that Steve needs to pay = 10%
Then
Amount of tax that Steve needs to pay for the purchase = (10/100) * 40
= 1 * 4 dollars
= 4 dollars
Then
The total amount including tax
that Steve needs to pay for the purchase = (40 + 4) dollars
= 44 dollars
So the dollar amount of tax that Steve had to pay is $4 and
the total amount that Steve had to pay was $44.
