Question

A customer paid $53.00 for a jacket after a 6 percent sales tax was added. What was the price of the jacket before the sales tax was added?

Answer 1

$50 just did it

Answer 2

$50 was the price of the jacket before the sales tax was added.

Explanation:

Let x be the price of the jacket before the sale tax was added.

As per the statement:

A customer paid $53.00 for a jacket after a 6 percent sales tax was added.

Price after tax = $ 53

Sale tax = 6%

⇒
`(106)/(100)x = 53`

or

`x = 53 * (100)/(106) = (100)/(2) = \$ 50`

Therefore, $50 was the price of the jacket before the sales tax was added.