Question

Find the cost of a $19,500 car plus a 6% sales tax.

Answer 1

I thought that you were supposed to multiply the cost of the car by .06 but that came out wrong.

Answer 2

I'm not in a business major but I imagine all you would need to do is find 6 percent of the cost of the car and then add that to the original cost of the car

Answer 3

@juanjohnguy Are supposed divide?

Answer 4

Again I'm not sure exactly if there is more to this question than I am thinking but if you want to try it my way....we remember that we can turn percentages into decimals right? So in this case we would first need to turn the percentage into a decimal....can you do that?

Answer 5

Yes than it would be .06
:)

Answer 6

Now we want to find out what 0.06 of the 19500 is...so what do we need to do to the two numbers to get that?

Answer 7

divide?

Answer 8

Not quite...and if you notice that when you do divide...you get a much higher number than the original value....but we are saying that we want 6 percent of the original value....and example that would help you think about it is that if we want to find 50 percent of this value given (the 19500) then we know that we need to find half of this number which we just know because of the 50 percent is just 1/2.....also another thing that would help you think about it is that 100 percent of a quantity means all of the quantity given....so in this case 100 percent of 19500 is 19500....so its impossible for 6 percent of 19500 to be more than the original price

Answer 9

Well.. This one is odd.. :/ because I have the answer and the answer is $20,670 but how did they get that... At first I thought you multiply.

Answer 10

You are right you do need to multiply the 0.06 by the 19500 but that is only step one

Answer 11

oh ok.. I will do that first just a min..

Answer 12

Sure take your time