Question

The sales tax on a surfboard is $12. What is the percent of sales tax?

Answer 1

what is the price of the surfboard

Answer 2

So there is a couple other people who have asked this question, saying that the surf board is $240. 5% of 240 is 12 so, the answer is 5%. Otherwise you would use the equation 12/X=Y where X is the cost of the surfboard and Y is the percent of tax