Question

You earned $34,000 and your total tax due was $6,200. What was your average tax rate?

Answer 1

6200 34,000 = 0.18

0.18 *100% = 18%

average tax rate was 18%

Answer 2

If you would usually multiply the rate by the original in order to find the amount of tax, you can write an equation to solve for the amount of tax itself (represented by x). 34,000x = 6,200 34,000 34,000 x=.183 Multiply by 100 to get convert to a percent. x=18.3%