Question

6. If the sales tax is $12.22 on a purchase of $216, what is the sales tax rate? Round your answer to two decimal places. %

Answer 1

Given:-

Sales tax is $12.22.

Total purchase is $216.

To find:-

Rate of sales tax.

To find the rate of sales of tax. we need to divide the sales tax amount amount by the total purchase and multiply by 100 . That is,

$\frac{12.22}{216}$

So by furthur simplification. we get,

$\begin{gathered} \frac{12.22}{216}\times100=0.0565\times100 \\ \text{ =5.65} \end{gathered}$

So rounding off the rate of sales tax the value is 5.66%