Problema Solution
You are purchasing office supplies. Because of the volume of your orders your company receives 15% off all purchases. You buy a case of paper for $24.95 and a toner refill for $35.99. You find discontinued in for $49.95 at 50% off. The local sales tax is 4.5%. What did you spend?
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In order to solve this particular problem, we will need to make some assumptions. First, we will assume that we get 15% off before taxes and that taxes will be determined after the discount. Second, we will assume that we still get 15% off on discounted items. Finally, we will assume that the question only cares about how much we spent on the ink.
ink price at 50% discount:
price=$49.95
ink price with our extra 15% discount:
price2=(1-.15)(49.95)
price2=$42.4575
ink price with the 4.5% sales tax:
price3=(1+.045)(42.4575)
price3=$44.37
Therefore, we would spend $44.37 on the ink. This is rounded to the nearest 100th's place.