Question

You want to buy a souvenir hat for $12.00. At the cash register, the sales clerk advises you that the total amount due, including tax, is $12.72. What is the sales tax (%) in this state?

Answer 1

The sale tax in this state is 6%

Explanation:

In order to find out the the sales tax we first have to create a fraction which has the difference between the price with taxes and without taxes, as its numerator, and the price without taxes as its denominator. So we do...

`(12.72-12.00)/(12.00) = (1272 - 1200)/(1200) = (72)/(1200) = (3)/(50)`

Now we just have to find a fraction with the same value but with a denominator being 100. So in out case we do....

`(3)/(50) = ((3)(2))/((50)(2)) = (6)/(100)`

Since we know that 1% is equal to
`(1)/(100)` we know that
`(6)/(100)` also means 6%. Therefore the answer is 6%

Answer 2

% English dictionary, words common to American and British

% spelling; must add one out of each of the pairs

% colour/color.dic

% labelled/labeled.dic

% centre/center.dic

% ize/ise.dic

% Extracted from US.dic and UK.dic, but with the 2 and 3 letter words

% of US.dic only.

% Patrick W. Daly 1998/05/19

% Update: 2000/03/02

% remove -yze and -yse words to yse.dic and yze.dic

% move advertise to here (is never advertize)

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