Question 1112388: My wants to buy three shirts which were originally priced $49.96 each. The store will discount the price of the third shirt and then apply a 7.1% tax to the total cost of all three shirts. Including the tax ,what will the mean cost of each shirt.
Found 2 solutions by rfer, ikleyn:
Answer by rfer(16322)   (Show Source):
Answer by ikleyn(52781)  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
From my point of view, the condition is EITHER uncompleted OR incorrect.
I will not explain why - it is absolutely clear.
Therefore, do not take seriously the solution by @rfer - it is the result of misreading and incorrect interpretation.
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Another notice aside:
I don't like very much the problems where the names of people are artificially made similar to other English words
(April, June and so on . . . , or this "My", in our case).
By doing it, the author put his signature in that he has no other way to make the problem more attractive.
It is one side. The other side is that this trick distracts the student's attention from the solution.
Therefore, I think it is very BAD style, in general, and very bad pedagogic style, in particular (my personal opinion . . . )
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