Tom wants to buy some protein bars and magazines for a trip he has decided to buy three times as many protein bars with magazines each protein bar cost $.70 and each magazine cost $2.50 the sales tax rate on both types of these items are 6.5% how many of each item can he buy if he has $20 to spend

12 Protein bar and 3 magazines

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Given

Tom purchases Protein bars 3 times as much as magazine

Each bar cost  

Each magazine costs

Sales tax is 6.5 %

suppose Tom buy x magazines so

Price of magazine is

Price of bars is

Total Price

After sales tax

This must be less than

so

thus

so he but 4 magazines and 12 protein bars

answer: the value of x is 7cm

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