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Question 34374: 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 usyim88hk(158) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! We can first find out the price of the toy ball:
so $0.18 is 7% of the price of the toy ball, then
0.18 / 7% = $2.57 which is the price of the toy ball
then subtract the price of the toy ball from the total with the tax
$5.15 - $2.57 - $0.18= $2.40
So the price of the grape fruit is 2.40 and the price of the toy ball is 2.57.
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