The price of a pair of shoes is $45.90. The sales-tax rate is 5 percent. How much sales tax do you need to pay?

A.
$0.30
B.
$2.30
C.
$23
D.
48.20

Question

The price of a pair of shoes is $45.90. The sales-tax rate is 5 percent. How much sales tax do you need to pay?

A. 
$0.30
B. 
$2.30
C. 
$23
D. 
48.20

supie · Answer

Since it says `5%` then we change that to 0.05 
Just another way of writing it.

supie · Answer

So you take the price of the pair of shoes  and multiply it by the sales-tax rate to find How much sales tax do you need to pay

kayleeb · Answer

Lreynolds24 · Answer

the answer is A). $0.30

carlosesgirl · Answer

Given :    The price of a pair of shoes is $45.90. The sales-tax rate is 5 percent.

We have to find the sales tax that is needed to  be paid.

Consider the given  price of shoes as $ 45.90

Since, 5% is sales tax.

So, he pays 5% of 45.90

That is