Question

If I am charged 6.5% tax on a 42$ purchase how would I find the amount of tax?

Answer 1

do you know how to turn a percent into a decimal ?

Answer 2

take your 6.5 and divide it by 100 and what do you get ?

Answer 3

The answer that you get from dividing 6.5 by 100...you take that answer and multiply it by 42, and that will be the amount of tax.