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Ashopper bought a watermelon a pack of napkins and some paper plates in his state there was no tax on food the tax rate on non-food items is 5% the total for the three items he bought was 825 before tags and he paid $0.19 in taxes how much did the watermelon cost

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Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.