Question

You find a sales receipt from a store that shows the total price as $40, and the total amount paid including sales tax as $42.
Write an equation you can use to find the sales tax rate r. An equation is 42=You find a sales receipt from a store that shows the total price as $40, and the total amount paid including sales tax as $42.
Write an equation you can use to find the sales tax rate r.

Answer 1

Total price=$40.

paid amount was= $42,

paid sales tax was=$ (42-40) = $2,

therefore the sales tax rate was 2/40×100=5,

Ans:-- sales tax rate was 5%