Question

Griselda budgets forty dollars per month before sales tax for clothes. How much will she spend on clothes each month if she is charged seven percent sales tax?

thirty-seven dollars and twenty cents

forty-two dollars and eighty cents

forty-seven dollars

sixty-eight dollars

Answer 1

@camerondoherty help please

Answer 2

40 per month
7% sales tax = 7% of 40 = (.07)(40) = 2.80
40 + 2.80 = 42.80

Answer 3

Match each percent proportion with the percent problem it represents.

Match Term Definition
forty over one hundred equals twenty−five over x A) twenty−five is what percent of forty?
twenty−five over forty equals x over one hundred B) forty is twenty−five percent of what number?
twenty−five over one hundred equals forty over x C) What is twenty−five percent of forty?
x over forty equals twenty−five over one hundred D) forty percent of what number is twenty−five?

Answer 4

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