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
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):
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
