Question

price of an item is 195$ the sales tax is 6% what is the total price of the item?.....some1 mind helping on this my minds drawing a blank on how to do this

Answer 1

what are you thinking

Answer 2

nvm friend just explained to me what i was doing wrong i was diving the 195 by .06 instead of multiplying it then adding it to original amount it came out to 206.70

Answer 3

ok

Answer 4

do u know why multiplying makes sense

Answer 5

not realy just know dividing gave big number

Answer 6

ah

Answer 7

6% is just another way to write 6/100 right

Answer 8

woah my computer is going crazy okay anyway lemme give u an easy way to think about it

Answer 9

Say you have 4 apples what is 1/2 of that?