Question

Griselda budgets forty-five dollars per month before sales tax for clothes. How much will she spend on clothes each month if she is charged six percent sales tax?

forty-two dollars and thirty cents

forty-five dollars and sixty cents

forty-seven dollars and seventy cents

fifty-one dollars

Answer 1

Well 6% is equivalent to .06

so if she budgets 45 dollars...and will have 6% sales tax taken off of that ...she will have

(45 * .94) dollars to spend

*.94 because the other .06 is the sales tax...so she will have .94 percent of her money left.

so this comes to...?

Answer 2

the first one

Answer 3

Correct! :)

Answer 4

thanx for the help

Answer 5

anytime!