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If Jonah’s lunch cost $27.50, and he paid $1.65 sales tax. What is the percent of sales tax?

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Terence101

Answer:

6.38%

Step-by-step explanation:

To answer questions like these it helps to work backwards. We know that sales tax is an added percentage of the cost of a product onto total.

So we get this sort of image:

Total = Original Cost x (1 + %tax)

Now we can start putting the numbers from the question into this equation.

So we know the total:

27.50 = Original Cost x (1+%tax)

We know the original cost. It must be the total amount minus the amount of sales tax put on it. (27.50 - 1.65 = 25.85)

27.50 = 25.85 x (1+%tax)

Now we can start solving for "%tax".

(27.50/25.85) = 1 + %tax

1.0638 = 1 +%tax

1.0638 - 1 = %tax

0.0638 = %tax

6.38% = tax

The sales tax is 6.38%.

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