Kevin has $24 to buy a gift for his cousin he found a gift for $22 with a 5% sales tax added on will kevin have enough money to buy the gift if so how much will he pay

Kevin will have enough. He will need to pay $23.10.

5% of $22 is $1.10.

22+1.10=23.10

23.10 is less than 24

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!

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