Question

A shirt cost $9.88 What is the price of the item after a 10% increase with sales tax? (Sales Tax: 8.25%)

Answer 1

So, lets try it this way.

Tax is added to the final price. So lets first deal with the 10% Increase.

So first, know that 0.1 = 10%

1.) Then: $9.88 * (0.1) = .988 which is rounded to $0.99

So then you add the shirt price plus the increase:
9.88 + .99

But before we add it, we then do the tax.
The tax is 8.25% = 0.825

2) So repeat the process of part 1:
9.88 * 0.0825 = about .82

3) add the parts now:

$9.88 + (Increase) $0.99 + (tax) $0.82 = $11.69

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Thank you

Answer 3

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