You brought 1.5 dozen bagels to school. a dozen bagels cost $5.98. you used a coupon that took $1.00 off the total. how much did you pay for the bagels.

  $7.97

Step-by-step explanation:

The cost before applying the coupon is ...

  ($5.98/doz)(1.5 doz) = $8.97

After taking $1 off, the amount paid is ...

  $8.97 -1.00 = $7.97

You paid $7.97 for the bagels.

Step-by-step explanation:

$7.97

The amount due for the bagels is:

(unit cost)(number of bagels) - (discount), or, specifically,

$5.98        1.5 dozen

*  -  $1.00

1 dozen              1

or  $8.97 - $1.00, or $7.97

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,