Question

Please Help... I'll Give U A Medal: What is the sales tax on a fifty dollar purchase in a state with a seven point five percent tax rate?

3 dollars and seventy-five cents

7 dollars and fifty cents

thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents

fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents

Answer 1

Tax = (percentage rates)(base price)
Tax = (0.075)(50)

Answer 2

So which one is it?

Answer 3

Is it a

Answer 4

Multiply them.

Answer 5

becasue it is not d

Answer 6

You thought correctly that it is a.