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20 April, 22:56

An item costs x dollars. The tax rate is 5% of the cost of the item, or 0.5x. Write and simplify an expression to find the total cost of the item with tax.

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  1. 20 April, 23:07
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    In the problem, I will use I as the item.

    i + (i*.05)

    Make sure you do the parentheses first; )
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