Question

Casey buys a bracelet. She pays for the bracelet and pays $0.72 in sales tax. The sales tax rate is 6%, percent.
What is the original price of the bracelet, before tax?

Answer 1

Answer:

12$

Step-by-step explanation:

6/100=0.06

0.06x=$0.72

0.06x/0.06=$0.72/0.06

x=12

Answer 2

Given:

Casey buys a bracelet. She pays for the bracelet and pays $0.72 in sales tax. The sales tax rate is 6%, per cent.

To find:

The original price of the bracelet.

Solution:

Let the original price of the bracelet is $x.

The sale tax rate is 6%.

Thus, the amount of sale tax is given as-

$x \times \frac{6}{100}$

This is equal to $0.72.

Thus we can write-

$\frac{6x}{100} = 0.72 \\ x = 0.72 \times \frac{100}{6} \\ x = 12$

The value of x is 12.

Hence the original price of the bracelet is $12.