Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Since Caleb paid 1.60 dollars in sales tax and 2.5% is the sales tax rate, 2.5% of x (price of Caleb's groceries) should equal x + $1.6.
0.025x = 1.6
x = $60
They are still parallel, no matter how they are two parallel lines always remain parallel.
Hope that was helpful
Answer:According to my calculations, an item with an original price tag of $54.50 that is marked down by 20% will have a sales price of $43.60 -- a savings of $10.90.
If you include the sales tax savings ($0.82 ) your total savings would add up to $11.72.
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
There is no solution. No value of x will make the equation true.
Basically, since both fractions have a like denominator, you just have to add across, but if the denominators were different, you'd have to to do more work. and it's the same without the denominators because all you're really doing is just crossing them out and adding across.
