madashia
Mar 28, 2008, 04:37 PM
A student buys a book for $12.00 and pays 7% sales tax. How much does the student pay in tax?
galactus
Mar 28, 2008, 05:04 PM
May I ask what grade you're in?
macgould10
Mar 28, 2008, 09:14 PM
Here's one way to approach the problem. There's actually multiple ways to solve it.
1. Figure out what 1% of $12.00 is. You do that by moving the decimal point 2 places to the left. That would be $0.12.
Multiply $0.12 by 7 to figure out what 7% is... that would be $0.84.
The student would pay $0.84 in tax.