Ray has saved $576 to purchase a lap top computer. this amount is ¾ of the total price of the computer. what is the price of the computer without sales tax? if he has to pay a sales tax of 6%, what is the total cost of the computer? show and explain your work.

answer: the answer is one of

step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following

the aswere is the one with all 8's and the second one is with the 10,8 and 6

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