Sure ... exactly the way you simplify "2 + 2" when it comes up in conversation ... perform the indicated operation wherever possible. In simplified form, -4x-x is written as. " -5x ".
Cable company marked up monthly cost by 6% .New cost = $63.6
cost before increase = 63.6 × 100/106
= $60
The answer to your question is 13.5
Digit in ones place- 8
Digit in tenths place- 2
