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Thank you We sneak Here's your smoke do sure brought

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to you by chinese takeout May your fortune never read

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probably shouldn't have eaten that Okay jasper orders takeout every

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friday His total is never more than twenty bucks including

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the untaxed five dollars delivery fee and a seven percent

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tax on this food if f represents the cost of

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his food which of the following represents jasper's order and

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your potential answers All right okay That taxes here for

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jasper the life of a single man every friday A

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sad nagging reminder of his loneliness Nothing He needs someone

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else to make him feel whole But well it's really

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hard to finish an order Chicken fried rice all by

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yourself Alright so every once in a while a problem

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comes along we can zip through in a matter of

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seconds and this is one of them Let's check out

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our answer choices here We're told that there's a seven

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percent tax on jasper's food represented by the variable f

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well there's no reference to that seven percent tax and

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option c so that was clearly a loser We're also

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told that five dollars delivery fee is untaxed and yet

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both options a and b have the delivery feet included

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inside the parentheses and then they haven't multiplied by either

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point Oh seven or one Point Oh seven neither of

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which could possibly be right Since that five bucks has

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to stand alone and lickety split Just like that we

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determine that option Do one point Oh seven f plus

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five is less than twenty has to be the right

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answer process of elimination Yes we've got the cost of

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the food being multiplied by one point Oh seven and

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that's one hundred percent plus percent extra Plus the five

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dollars delivery charge must equal or be less than twenty

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bucks Yes is it was outlined in the problem Jasper

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has resolved to get back into the dating scene starting

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next week We wish him the best of luck Perhaps

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someday soon his fortune will read his cheaper to go 00:01:48.808 --> [endTime] split seas

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