Question

A store is having a 20% off sale. The final sale price of the items will include 5% sales tax.

The final sale price of an item can be expressed as 1.05(x – 0.2x), where x is the original price of the item.

Answer 1

Answers:

• first box = 0.84x
• second box = 84

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Step-by-step explanation:

Think of x - 0.2x as 1x-0.2x. The numbers out front, the 1 and -0.2, combine to 0.8

The 0.8 converts to 80%, meaning that if there's a 20% off sale, then you still have to pay the remaining 80% of the original price.

The 1.05 indicates that we started with 100%, and then add on 5% sales tax, so 100% + 5% = 1 + 0.05 = 1.05

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Simplifying the expression given to us leads to

1.05(x - 0.2x)

1.05(1x - 0.2x)

1.05(0.8x)

(1.05*0.8)x

0.84x

This shows that the final price, after tax, is 84% of the original price.

Answer 2

0.84 and 84

Step-by-step explanation:

1.05 (x -0.2x) = 1.05 (1-0.2)x = 1.05 * 0.8 x= 0.84x

84% of the original price of item