Nancy lives in a state where sales tax is 9%. This means you can find the total cost of an item, including tax, by using the expression c + 0.09c, where c is the pre-tax price of the item. Use the expression to find the total cost of an item that has a pre-tax price of $84.00.

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  $91.56

Step-by-step explanation:

We can simplify Nancy's cost expression to ...

  c +0.09c = c(1 +0.09) = 1.09c

The the total cost of the item of interest is ...

  (1.09)($84) = $91.56

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step-by-step explanation:

step 1 distribute 2 to every term in the parentheses

step 2 add 10 on both sides of the equal sign