Your question is incomplete.
9a + (9t+27)=x
To write it another way you could flip the numbers around:
(9t+27)+9a=x
Or flip the variable to the other side.
x=9a + (9t+27)
Any way you put the numbers as long as x is on the either side, you will get the same answer.
Hope this helps!
$35.00 x .20 = $7
So the discount would be $7 off of $35, for a final sale price of $28
Statistics is not an exact science, meaning that with any answer, there will be variance. This is because the sample size used to obtain values is always smaller than the population being studied.