Question

A television sells for $845. If the sales tax rate is 9.3%, what is the total price?

Answer 1

Let's calculate the 9.3% of the price of the television:

First, we need to convert 9.3% to decimal, to do that we divide the percentage by 100:

$\frac{9.3}{100}=0.093$

Now we can multiply the price of the tv by the percentage in decimal to get the amount of the tax:

$845\cdot0.093=78.585$

The cost of the tax is $78.585, since the tax are values over the original price, we need to add the tax cost to the television cost:

$845+78.585=923.585$

The total price, with tax, is:

$923.58