Question

Your water bill consists of five parts: A base hookup fee of $32.50, a water fee of $0.03 per gallon of water, a sewer fee of $0.01 per gallon of water, a trash collection fee of $35, and a tax of 5% on the total. What would your monthly bill be if you used 4,000 gallon of water?​

Answer 1

hi

You have to keep calm and to treat data as it come.

1 ) Start by constant fees :

hook up fees is 32.50 and trash collection fees are 35

so contant fees : 32.50 +35 = 67.50

2 ) Now we have to deal with variable fees which depend on how much water is used

water fees :

0.03 per gallon, and we have 4 000 gallon, so :

0.03*4 000 = 120

Sewer fees :

0.01 per gallon, and we have 4 000 gallon, so :

0.01 * 4000 = 40

3 ) Total before taxation we have :

67.50 +120 +40 = 227.5

4) Now we apply tax on the total before tax.

tax is 5 % , which mean you rise the "off tax " price by 5 percent.

To grow a number of X % , you multiply by 1+ X/ 100

here X = 5 so the multiplicator is : 1 + 5/100 = 1.05

So total of the bill is : 227.5 * 1.05 = 238.875

The water compagny is probably going to round it up to 238.88