The expression shown is the cost a customer pays for an item, where c is the cost the store pays for the item and 0.85c is the 85% price increase the store adds to the item.
Which expression is equivalent to c + 0.85c?

the first one, all those points on the line just make a strait line.

6.5

step-by-step explanation:

you said it was in the question

~courtney

the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b