Christmas ornaments are on sale at the local department store. there is an initial discount of 20%. for four hours, there is an additional discount of 15%. the original price of the ornament is 25$ what is the final price of the ornament if sales tax is 6%

$18.02

Step-by-step explanation:

25 is the original price

25 times .2(20%) means you get a $5 discount, then you have a price of $20 for the item. Multiply that by .15(15%) for an additional discount  of $3, making the item $17 now. 17 times .06(6%) gives you the tax of 1.02, and add that to the item price and you get a total of $18.02

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: