Question

Rita bought a pair of jeans for 89$. The sales-tax rate is 11 percent. What is the TOTAL amount she paid for the jeans?

Answer 1

89 + 89(.11) = total amount
you can do the math

Answer 2

what your basically doing is taking you $89 and adding 11% of $89 to it. (11% is equal to 0.11)

Answer 3

ah, I got it... now. Thank you!