The chart shows several possible presents. There is no sales tax in the state where they live.



Present Cost ($) Discount (%) Total Paid

Power tools d 15% (+2)

Water skis d + 15 25% (+2)

Jewelry d – 5 10% (+2)



a. Write TWO expressions in terms of "d" to show how much Winona and Takoda would pay in total if they buy their mother the set of POWER TOOLS.

1 answer

To calculate how much Winona and Takoda would pay for the power tools, we first need to apply the discount to the original cost, which is represented as \(d\).

  1. Expression for the price after the discount of 15%: The formula to calculate the price after applying a discount is: \[ \text{Price after discount} = \text{Original cost} - (\text{Original cost} \times \text{Discount rate}) \] In this case, the discount rate is 15%, or 0.15 in decimal form. Thus, the expression would be: \[ \text{Price after discount} = d - (d \times 0.15) = d - 0.15d = 0.85d \]

  2. Expression for the total paid after adding the additional cost (+2): To find the total paid after this discount, we simply add the additional cost of 2 dollars: \[ \text{Total paid} = \text{Price after discount} + 2 \] Substituting the price after the discount we calculated earlier: \[ \text{Total paid} = 0.85d + 2 \]

So the two expressions in terms of \(d\) are:

  1. \(0.85d\) (the price after the discount)
  2. \(0.85d + 2\) (the total amount paid).