Megamart collects a sales tax equal to 1/16 of the
retail price of each purchase. the taxis sent to the state government.
a. is the amount of tax collected proportional to the cost of an item before tax is added? explain
b. is the amount of tax collected proportional to the cost of an item after tax
has been added? explain.

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if a = 1,   and b = 2, then the answer is 47.99999999. if you round that to the nearest whole number, the answer is 48.

option (b) is correct

step-by-step explanation:

to find the solution of this system, we need to convert it into reduced row-echelon form. we have,

after applying row operations r2 -> r2/2 and r3 -> r3/3, we get,

it would open into a square depending on the type of envelope i’m not sure about the second part