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Actual price of the item = $14.74
Percentage of sales tax that needs to be added = 4%
Then
Amount of sales tax that needs to be added = (4/100) * 14.74 dollars
= 58.96/100 dollars
= 0.5896 dollars
= 0.59 dollars
Then
The cost of the item including sales tax = (14.74 + 0.59) dollars
= 15.33 dollars
From the above deduction we can easily conclude that the correct option among all the options given in the question is option "B".
for all 
in [-3, 0], so 
is non-decreasing over this interval, and in particular we know right away that its minimum value must occur at 
.
From the plot, it's clear that on [-3, 0] we have 
. So
for some constant 
. Given that 
, we find that
so that on [-3, 0] we have
and
14/33 or in decimal form is 0.4242
