When a merchant imported a certain item, he paid a 9 percent…

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 $85.50, what was the total value of the item?

This problem repeats another one in the library (at most with different numbers), so it's left out of browsing.

AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #1535