Please help this makes no sense

Steve wants to develop a way to find the total cost of any item including sales tax. the sales tax in his city is 6%. his friend jenna writes the expression x + 6x where x is the cost of the item. explain whether her expression is correct based on the situation.

20 solve 2(4 x + 3) < 5 x + 21. a) { x | x < 9} b) { x | x > -5} c) { x | x > -9} d) { x | x < 5}

Which rule describes the composition of transformations that maps △abc to △a”b”c