When a merchant imported a certain item, she paid a 7 percent import tax on the portion of the total value of the item in excess of $1,000. If the amount of the import tax that the merchant paid was $109.90, what was the total value of the item?
Choose the correct answer
A) $1940 B) $2150 C) $2360 D) $2570 E) $2780
Let x be the value of the item.   0.07*(x-1000) = 109.90   x = 2570   The answer is $2570.
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When a merchant imported a certain item, she paid a 7 percent import tax on the portion of the total value of the item in excess of $1,000. If the amount of the import tax that the merchant paid was $109.90, what was the total value of the item?