Question

An item regularly priced at $80 is on sale for 20% off. There is 3% sales tax. What is the sales price before sales tax?

Answer 1

Price before tax is $64

Explanation:

It asks for price before sales tax, so ignore sales tax %.

P=original-[original•(20/100)]

=80-80•0.2

=80-16

P=64

Answer 2

$64

Explanation:

We have been given that an item regularly priced at $80 is on sale for 20% off. There is 3% sales tax. We are asked to find the sales price before sales tax.

The sales price would be 80 minus 20% of 80.

`\text{Sales price}=80-(20)/(100)* 80`

`\text{Sales price}=80-(1600)/(100)`

`\text{Sales price}=80-16`

`\text{Sales price}=64`

Therefore, the sales price before sales tax would be $64.