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A store offers a 15% discount on all items in the store during a sale. All store employees get an additional 10% employee discount. In the equation below, C represents the cost of an item for an employee including tax and x represents the original price of the item:

C = 0.765x + 0.06(0.765x)

Chris is an employee at the store. He plans to buy a coat during the sale. The price of the coat before the discount is $100. How much will Chris pay for the coat during the sale? Remember, do not include the $ symbol.

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Your answer is 81.09
All you would do here is plug in 100 (which is the original price of the coat) into the already given equation so...
C= 0.765(100)+0.06(0.765(100))
solve the equation....
C=76.5+0.06(76.5)
C=76.5+4.59
C=81.09
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