Question

The city of Atlanta recently increased their sales tax from 7.5% to 8%. How much more tax would you pay on a $10 purchase?

Answer 1

The difference from 7.5% to 8% is 0.5%
since 8 - 7.5 = 0.5


Take 0.5% of $10 to get

0.5% of $10 = (0.5/100)*10 = ???

tell me what you get

Answer 2

??

Answer 3

what is `0.5/100` equal to?

Answer 4

I think you wrote something? but you deleted it?

anyways, you should find that 0.5/100 = 0.005

Answer 5

now just multiply that with 10 to get

0.005*10 = ???

Answer 6

0.05?

Answer 7

yep so overall, 0.5% of $10 is equal to $0.05 which is equivalent to 5 cents

Answer 8

if the tax goes from 7.5% to 8%, then you pay an additional 5 cents