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?

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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?

anonymous · Answer

if you already have the formula just subsitude x for 100 and follow the equation and you should get the answer

anonymous · Answer

sorry the answer to the price and then you'd have to multiply the discounts to it

anonymous · Answer

um...whatt?

anonymous · Answer

C = 0.765x + 0.06(0.765x)
x=100 (that means change all x's to 100) then follow the equation to add and multiply
after you done that multiply in the discounts

anonymous · Answer

ok but what nubers woud the percents be cuz im not good with them

anonymous · Answer

15%=.15   and 10% = .1

anonymous · Answer

The cost is 81.09?

anonymous · Answer

think it should be 60.10 did you subtract the discount from how much it costed?

anonymous · Answer

oh nno ty