when a merchant imported a certain item , he paid a 9 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 $ 76.50 , what was the total value of the item ?
"let x be the value in excess of $ 1,000 . 0.09 x = 76.5 x = $ 850 the total value was $ 850 + $ 1,000 = $ 1,850 . the answer is d ."
floor(divide(add(divide(76.50, divide(9, const_100)), 1,000), 1,000))