Julia bought a blouse for $18.25 and a skirt for $22.40. If she received a 10% discount for the skirt and the sales tax rate is 7.25%, how many dollars did she pay?
22.40 x 0.90 =20.16 dollars - what she paid for the skirt.
[20.16 + 18.25] x 1.0725 ==41.19 dollars - what she paid in total.
1.0725 (18.25 + .9(22.40) ) = $ ..........