Question

Janice bought an antique clock originally priced at $967 but on sale for 5% off. After 1% sales tax, what was the total cost?

Answer 1

Answer:

927.84

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The total cost of the antique clock that Janice bought is $927.82 approximately.

How to find the percentage from the total value?

Suppose the value of which a thing is expressed in percentage is "a'

Suppose the percent that considered thing is of "a" is b%

Then since percent shows per 100 (since cent means 100), thus we will first divide the whole part in 100 parts and then we multiply it with b so that we collect b items per 100 items(that is exactly what b per cent means).

Thus, that thing in number is

$\dfrac{a}{100} \times b$

For this case, we have:

• Original price of clock = $967
• Sale discount  = 5% on original price
• 1% sales tax on the discounted price

Total cost = (discounted price of clock)'s price + sales tax of discounted price.

Let d = discounted price of the clock

Then, we have:

$d = 967 - \text{5\% discount on 967} \\\\d = 967 - \dfrac{967}{100} \times 5 = \ 918.65$

1% sales tax on 'd' will be: $\dfrac{d}{100} \times 1 = \ 9.1865 \approx \ 9.19$

Thus, we get:

Total cost of the clock ≈ 918.65 + 9.19 = 927.82 (in dollars)

Thus, the total cost of the antique clock that Janice bought is $927.82 approximately.

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