Question

The price of a new car is $29,990 if the sales tax rate is 6.5% then how much sales Tex is being charged? What is the totall cost for the car including tax?

Answer 1

Answer: $31939.35

Explanation:

We can write the first part of this problem as: What is 6.5% of $29,990.

"Percent" or "%" means "per 100" or "out of 100". Therefore

6.5

%

can be written as

6.5

100

.

When dealing with percentages the word "of" means the product of or to multiply.

Let's call the sales tax amount we are looking for

s

.

We can now write the problem as:

s

=

6.5

100

×

$

29990

s

=

$

194935

100 s= $1949.35

The sales tax on the car is: $1,949.35.

The total price of the car is then:

$29,990.00 + $1,949.35=$31,939.35

Answer 2

Sales tax= $1,949.35

Total cost of the car including tax= $31,939.35

Explanation:

sales tax = 0.065 x $29,990 = $1,949.35

Total cost of the car= car's price + sales tax

Total cost of the car= $29,990 + $1,949.35

Total cost of the car= $31,939.35