Payday loan is the answer
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but 8% of 114 is 9.12. You can figure this out by doing 114 times .08=9.12
We have to express 82.50 as a certain percentage of 72.40. In other words, we have to write

Solving for x, we have

So, this month's bill was about 114% of the normal bill.
Your answer is going to be A. Y=12
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