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Emelia is booking a flight to San Francisco. The airline charges 5270 for the ticket and 16% for taxes and fees. How much will Emelia pay for her flight?

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User Shaybc
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ANSWER:
$6113.20


Step-by-step explanation:
There is two ways to make an expression to solve this which is
y = 1.16x
or
y = x + 0.16x

Here is the explanation for the first expression, it is more thorough:

The airline makes her pay x amount in dollars for the ticket alone. Then, the airline charges an additional 16% of that x amount. Just a policy they’ve required.
Therefore:
y = x + 0.16x

• x is the ticket price
• 0.16x is 16% of that ticket price

Plug x with the initial charge amount:
y = 5270 + 0.16(5270)
y = 6113.20



User Xurca
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10% of 5270 = $527
5% of 5270 = $263.50
1% of 5270 = $52.70
6% of 5270= $316.20
16% of 5270 = $843.20

$843.20 + $5270 = $6113.20
^ answer


sorry if it’s long lol i wanted to break it down as much as possible
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