Am I doing this right? The question is... At the first store Arlene visited, she spent 40% of her money plus $4. At the second store she spent 50% of her remaining money plus $5. At the third store Arlene spent 60% of her remaining money plus $6. When Arlene finished shopping at the three stores, she had $2 left over. How many dollars did she have when she started shopping? My equation was x - 2 = ((0.4x+4)0.5+5)0.6+6. Both sides of the equation were to find how much she spent. I got 13.86363...

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  $90

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's consider the remaining money. If x represents the amount Arlene started with, then the remaining amounts are ...

  after first store: x -(0.4x +4) = 0.60x -4

After spending 50% of her money, the amount remaining will be 1-50% = 50%. Then spending 5 more dollars reduces the amount remaining by another 5.

  after second store: (0.60x -4)(0.50) -5 = 0.30x -2 -7 = 0.30x -7

After spending 60% of her money, the amount remaining will be 1-60% = 40%. Then spending 6 more dollars reduces the amount remaining by another 6.

  after third store: (0.30x -7)(0.40) -6 = 0.12x -2.80 -6 = 0.12x -8.80

This is reported to be $2, so we have ...

  0.12x -8.80 = 2

  0.12x = 10.80

  x = 90

Arlene started shopping with $90.

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At the first store, Arlene spent 0.40×$90 +$4 = $40, so she had $90-40=$50 remaining.

At the second store, Arlene spent 0.50×$50 +$5 = $30, so she had $50-30=$20 remaining.

At the third store, Arlene spent 0.60×$20+$6 = $18, so she had $20-18 =$2 remaining.

answer:

your answer is: c. 196 7/8 in^3.

let's cover over the formula of the vertex:

y = a(x – h)^2 + k

in this formula, (h,k) are the vertex, always remember that the positive or negative value of the vertex is based on the sign it has.

for example, if the vertex is -3,-6 then both the x and y value would have the positive sign attached to it and if it were a positive x and y value, then a negative sign would be attached to it.

with that being said, for our problem the x value is a positive one so we are looking for a number with a negative sign next to it, in this case the first and second choice.

however, for the first answer choice it isn't quite part of the formula so we know that the answer choice correctly displays the x value.

to confirm, we can see if the -1 fits correctly with the second answer choice, and as mentioned above a negative number will have a positive sign attached to it. so, for our problem we can see that -1 has been changed to +1, so we can confirm that the second answer choice is correct.

hence, our final answer is y=(x - 1)^2 + 1