increasing the original price of an article by 8 percent and then increasing the new price by 8 percent is equivalent to increasing the original price by
"1.08 * 1.08 * x = 1.1664 * x the answer is c ."
multiply(const_100, subtract(multiply(add(const_1, divide(8, const_100)), add(const_1, divide(8, const_100))), const_1))