1. at the grocery store, you buy a carton of milk for $1.25, a loaf of bread on sale for $0.35, and a box of cereal for $3.75. use mental math to find the total cost of the groceries.

Answerthe simplified expression isexplanationthe given expression is,let us deal with the bracket first.the two negatives in the parenthesis will become positive.the expression now becomes,we now expand the parenthesis to get,we group like terms to obtain,this simplifies to,