Question

The expression shown is the cost a customer pays for an item, where cis the cost the store pays for the item and 0.85c is the 85% price increase the store adds to the item. Which expression is equivalent to c + 0.85c? 1.150 0.15c 0.850 1.85c My Progress

Answer 1

Simplify the equivalent expression c+0.85c by adding the coefficient of same variables.

`\begin{gathered} c+0.85c=(1+0.85)c \\ =1.85c \end{gathered}`

So equivalent expression is 1.85c.