Problem

14. The after-tax price of your shiny new car is \( \$ 25,989.60 \). If a \( 4 \% \) sales tax was charged, what was the pretax price of the car?

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x = \( \frac{25989.60}{1.04} \)

Steps

Step 1 ：Let x be the pretax price of the car. Then after applying the 4% sales tax, we have: x * (1 + 0.04) = 25989.60

Step 2 ：Solve the equation for x: x * 1.04 = 25989.60

Step 3 ：x = \( \frac{25989.60}{1.04} \)

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