. Naty bought a dress for $24.95 and a skirt for $14.95. The sales clerk said the total cost including 9.5% sales tax was 49.40.
Below are the steps the clerk completed. Step 1: 24.95 + 14.95 = 39.90 Step 2: 39.90 + 9.5 = 49.40
Are the clerk's steps correct? If she is incorrect, identify her mistake and explain her error. Explain in writing how to accurately calculate the sales tax, total cost, and state the correct total. ( Round final answer to the nearest hundredth)
So the first thing you want to do when faced with two fractions with different denominators (when subtracting or adding) is to make the denominators the same. So for this equation they would turn out to be p+10/16=15/16 (because 16 is the lowest common denominator, 8 times two) so then you want to subtract 10/16 from 15/16 to isolate the variable (p) which would get: p=5/16 This is the final answer because it cannot be simplified. Hope this helps!
