The original price of an item plus a sales tax of 8.5 % write an expression? I need help ASAP

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asked Sep 13, 2016 232k views

2 Answers

Nevil Ghelani · Answer 1 · 2016-09-15T04:08:32+0000

well, with out the price of the original item, it would have to be expressed as x. so the answer would be the equation x + %8.5 or x + .085

Milos Fec · Answer 2 · 2016-09-18T05:23:12+0000

Answer:

1.085x

Explanation:

Let x represent original price of an item.

We have been given that sales tax is 8.5%. The cost of item after sales tax would be x plus 8.5% of x.

$\text{Total price of item}=x+(8.5)/(100)\cdot x$

$\text{Total price of item}=x+0.085 x$

$\text{Total price of item}=1.085x$

Therefore, our required expression would be
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