SOLUTION: Can you please help with this word problem.
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 to
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Question 63235: Can you please help with this word problem.
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 on the toy ball, what are the prices of the grapefruit and the ball?
Answer by Cintchr(481) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
food + ball + tax = total
1.
and
2.
solve for b
3. (rounded)
Plug 2 and 3 into 1
combine like terms
subtract 2.57 from both sides
CHECK:
food + ball + tax = total
YES!!!
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