Nate paid $13.25 for a shirt. This amount includes a sales tax of 6%. What was the cost of the shirt before tax?
2 answers:
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Given:
The expression is
To find:
The expression which is not a correct way to rewrite the given expression.
Solution:
We have,
Using distributive property, we get
Using distributive property the given expression can rewritten as:
Only the expression in option A is not a correct way to rewrite the given expression because is not distributed to
properly.
Therefore, the correct option is A.
I will say there are two ways to solve this problem. The first is, you can use your calculator and calculate it to see which is the closest to 2. The second way is divide it and here is how you do it:
1 is just 1
15/16 = 16 goes into 15 for less than one
17/8 = 8 goes into 17 for more than two so you can rewrite it as
63/33 = 33 does not go into 63 for two
So the answer is 17/8
1 is just 1
15/16 = 16 goes into 15 for less than one
17/8 = 8 goes into 17 for more than two so you can rewrite it as
63/33 = 33 does not go into 63 for two
So the answer is 17/8