Brianna has a loyalty card good for a 10% discount at her local hardware store. If the total cost, before tax and discount, of all the items she wants to buy is cc, which expression represents the cost after the discount?

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To calculate the cost after the discount for Brianna's purchase, we start with the total cost before the discount, which is denoted as \( cc \).

Since Brianna has a 10% discount, we first need to determine the amount of the discount. The discount amount can be calculated as:

\[ \text{Discount} = 0.10 \times cc \]

To find the total cost after applying the discount, we subtract the discount amount from the original total cost:

\[ \text{Cost after discount} = cc - \text{Discount} \]

Substituting the discount into the equation gives:

\[ \text{Cost after discount} = cc - (0.10 \times cc) \]

This simplifies to:

\[ \text{Cost after discount} = cc(1 - 0.10) \]

Calculating \(1 - 0.10\) we get \(0.90\), thus:

\[ \text{Cost after discount} = 0.90 \times cc \]

Therefore, the expression that represents the cost after the discount is:

\[ 0.90cc \]