SOLUTION: A man goes into a grocery store and buys a grapefruit and a toy ball. A 7% tax is applied to the price of non food items. If the total bill is $5.15 including $ 0.18 in tax, what
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Question 439694: A man goes into a grocery store and buys a grapefruit and a toy ball. A 7% tax is applied to the price of non food items. If the total bill is $5.15 including $ 0.18 in tax, what are the prices of the grapefruit and the ball?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the cost of the toy. Then 
, hence 
so he paid 
for the toy ball. So he paid 
for one grapefruit. Therefore, your problem is incorrectly worded. Instead of A man goes into a grocery store it should be An idiot goes into a grocery store, unless maybe he is in Tokyo where the prices are sky high for citrus AND he bought 2 grapefruit.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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