Customer: "i buy the same items every week and my bill is normally $90.00. why am i now being charged $108.00 for the exact same items? " employee: "unfortunately, the increased cost of raw materials has forced us to increase our prices by "

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.