A painting that regularly sells for a price of $55 is on sale for 20% off. The sales tax on the painting is 7%. Will the final total cost of the painting differ depending on whether the salesperson deducts the discount before adding the sales tax or takes the discount after computing the sum of the original price and the sales tax on $55? please step by step

Jessica and martha each have a bag of cookies with unequal quantities. they have 30 cookies total between the two of them. each of them ate 6 cookies from their bag. the product of the number of cookies left in each bag is not more than 80. how many more cookies will jessica have martha? if x represents the number of cookies jessica started with, complete the statements below.the inequality that describes the relationship between the number of cookies each one of them has is x^2 - x +224 > = 0.jessica has at least cookies more than martha.