SOLUTION: If you normally pay $80 for groceries and your next grocery bill is going to be 25% more expensive, how much will your grocery's cost after the increase?

Question 1009150: If you normally pay $80 for groceries and your next grocery bill is going to be 25% more expensive, how much will your grocery's cost after the increase?
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
80+(80*.25)= new cost (you punch calculator keys)
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A short cut: whenever you want to know how much is a+(a*.x) you can do this:
a*1.x In your problem:
80*1.25 Do the calculation, you'll get the same result as above with one less calculation, above you had to multiply and then add while here you just multiply.
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