Gavin agrees to buy a 6 month package deal of monthly gym passes, and in turn receives a 15% discount. Write an algebraic expression to represent the total cost of the monthly passes with the discount, if X represents the cost of each monthly pass.

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Janelle Harrison

4 July, 02:47

Gavin agrees to buy a 6 month package deal of monthly gym passes, and in turn receives a 15% discount. Write an algebraic expression to represent the total cost of the monthly passes with the discount, if X represents the cost of each monthly pass.

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Paul Rhodes · Answer 1

15% off means 85% on so I would use. 85x · 6 = total monthly cost to represent this problem. The dot represents times (I did not want to confuse things by using x)

Other ways to express this:

6 x. 85x

6 (.85x)

.85x (6)