The price of a pair of headphones is $49.99 before tax. Ron bought the headphones for a 50% discount. then paid a sales tax of 8% on the discounted price.
How much did Ron pay in sales tax?
what is the total amount that Ron paid for the headphones?
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Original price = 49.99
Discount rate = 50% = .5
To find the discount we take the original price and multiply by the discount rate.
Discount = Original price × Discount rate
Discount = 49.99 × .5
Discount = 24.995(Rounding to the nearest cent) = 25.00
To find the sale price we subtract the discount from the sale price.
Sale price = original price - discount
= 49.99 - 25
= 24.99
To find the sales tax, we take the tax rate and multiply by the sales price
tax = sales price × tax rate
tax = 24.99 × .08
= 1.9992
Round to the nearest cent
= 2.00
The total cost is the sales price plus the tax
Total cost = sales price + tax
= 24.99 + 2.00
= 26.99
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