Answer: the original price of the shorts was $25
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the original price of the shorts.
The store is having a sale in which all items are reduced by 20%. This means that the amount of discount on the shorts is
20/100 × x = 0.2x
The price of the shorts would be
x - 0.2x = 0.8x
If the sales tax is 5%, then the amount of sales tax charged is
5/100 × 0.8x = 0.04x
The final cost of the shorts would be
0.8x + 0.04x = 0.84x
Including tax, Jennifer paid $21 for a pair of shorts. This means that
0.84x = 21
x = 21/0.84
x = 25
The answer is C i took the test a couple days ago
Answer:
<em>Both 16 and 1 are squares. This suggests using the formula for the difference of squares. Answer link.</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
Every time you have a difference in the format of
A2−B2 you can factor as (A−B)(A+B).
Then you have to identify if your quantity is the difference of two squared quantities.
It is. In fact we can write it as:
16x2−1=(4x)2−12
Then we can apply our rule
