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Okay, so i see that you need help with this question and it says the theater group made appearances in two cities.
00:06
The hotel charge before tax in the second city was $1 ,500 higher than the first.
00:14
Oops, i didn't mean to put an equal sign.
00:16
Plus $1 ,500 equals y.
00:20
So we're going to have y equal the second city and x equal the first.
00:26
And so it says the tax in the first city, so tax in first city is 4 .5 % and it was, so and then the total paid in taxes for both cities was total taxes paid for both cities was $708 .75.
00:58
How much was the hotel charge in each city before tax? so for this, um, you just didn't give what the tax rate was for the second city.
01:16
So say the tax, so this was the first city, say the tax for the second city was say 4 % because you wouldn't be able to figure this out if you didn't know what the tax rate was for the second city.
01:32
So you could do x plus 1500 equals y.
01:37
And then, um, you can take 0 .045 plus your 0 .04, cause that's your tax rate of your other city times, um, x plus 1500 equals the total of $708 .75...